Information and Broadcasting Ministry forms committee to review TRP guidelines

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has constituted a four-member committee to review the guidelines on television rating agencies.
The Panel will be headed by Shashi Shekhar Vempati, CEO of Prasar Bharati.
This comes after the Mumbai police investigations that revealed that a few news channels had tampered with the ratings.
The committee will carry out an appraisal of the existing system, examine TRAI recommendations notified from time to time, overall industry scenario and address the needs of the stakeholders.
Dr. Shalabh, Professor of Statistics from IIT Kanpur, Rajkumar Upadhyay, Executive Director of C-Dot and Professor Pulak Ghosh of Decision Sciences Centre for Public Policy are the other members of the committee.