₹5 crore for companies applying for a TV channel, and ₹20 crore for a news channel. TV channels cannot telecast any content incapable of earning and sustaining high advertising revenues.
The ostensible reason for this policy is to reduce the proliferation of TV channels.But that is exactly what we need in the education space—a proliferation of channels.
India needs a lot of content to cater to 400 million school-going age Indians affected by school closures. Channels for different subjects, in different languages, using different teaching methods, for all ages.
Superstar teachers, who currently teach at expensive tuition centres, should be able to teach and broadcast at a low cost.This is happening online.