{"id":39809,"date":"2018-01-31T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=39809"},"modified":"2018-01-31T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:40:42","slug":"auction-fm-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/auction-fm-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Auction of FM Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Auction of how many FM channels was approved in 236 cities by the Central Government recently?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 550<br \/>\n(b) 585<br \/>\n(c) 650<br \/>\n(d) 683<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (d)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On December 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017, the Central Government approved the auction of 683 FM channels in 236 cities.<\/li>\n<li>This decision was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/li>\n<li>The government has already completed auction of two batches of private FM channels.<\/li>\n<li>Now the government&#8217;s plan is to conduct auction of third batch to cover many cities including Jammu and Kashmir and the North-Eastern states.<\/li>\n<li>It is known that at present where the target population is less than 1 lakh, there are no private FM radio channels.<\/li>\n<li>In the third phase, FM radio channels will be auctioned in 29 states and 6 Union Territories (except Dadra and Nagar Haveli).<\/li>\n<li>After the auction, private FM radio broadcasts can be started in these States \/ UTs.<\/li>\n<li>The auction is likely to earn an estimated revenue of more than Rs 1100 crore.<\/li>\n<li>Under the FM policy guidelines, auction of the first and second batch of private FM radio channels was conducted in the third phase in 2015 and 2016, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>In the first batch, 97 channels were sold in 56 cities and 66 channels were sold in 48 cities in the second batch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pib.nic.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1513764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pib.nic.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1513764<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Auction of how many FM channels was approved in 236 cities by the Central Government recently? (a) 550 (b) 585 (c) 650 (d) 683 Answer: (d) Related Facts: On December 20th, 2017, the Central Government approved the auction of 683 FM channels in 236 cities. This decision was taken at a meeting of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-39809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}