The Centre has sought a special audit of direct-to-home (DTH) TV service providers on the long-running dispute over licence fees, ET has learnt.
The union ministry of information and broadcasting wrote to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India this week asking for an intensive audit of all DTH service providers going back to their year of inception or grant of licence by the government.
The move is over suspected discrepancies in revenue calculation by DTH service providers, ET has learnt.
Waiver Request
The I&B ministry has, accordingly, asked the CAG to conduct a special audit to ensure that the amount submitted to the central government by way of licence fee is “correctly assessed and collected,” it is learnt.
DTH operators had sought a licence fee waiver in May, citing a decline in subscribers over the years, due to factors such as the advent of streaming…
