No plans for permitting late night adult telecasts: Tewari

NEW DELHI: The Government has reiterated that it has no proposal to allow telecast of mature content at late night hours on television channels.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari told Parliament that there is no plan to change the Programme Code in this regard.

Tewari also clarified that the word ?unrestricted public exhibition? in Rule 6(1)(o) of the Cable Television Networks Rules 1994 will have the same meaning assigned to it in the Cinematograph Act 1952.