For India to successfully go from analogue to digital TV, a total of 140 million STBs will be seeded in order to complete digitisation. The Information and Broadcasting secretary Bimal Julka noted that the number was for all four phases of digitisation.
Bimal Julka said, “A total of 140 million STBs are required to achieve complete digitisation by 2014. Digitisation has already been successfully completed in 42 cities in the first two phases. Around 30 million STBs have been seeded. About 110 million STBs are required to be seeded in the remaining two phases. The Indian industry has sufficient capacity to meet this demand. There is a huge opportunity for the Indian industry and also from the employment-generation perspective”
According to the government currently the first two phases of digitisation have been successfully completed and achieved by the deadlines. The ministry has also noted that the digitisation process has not been put on hold for any reason. Currently the third phase of digitisation is going on. The government in the country hopes to complete the process at the latest by December 2014.
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