The Hindu : CAS rollout from Sept. 1

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Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003

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CAS rollout from Sept. 1

By Anita Joshua

NEW DELHI JULY 21. Amid considerable speculation about a further deferment of the Conditional Access System (CAS) — at least in the Capital in view of the coming Assembly elections — the Government today decided to go ahead with the revised schedule in the notified zones of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata besides the whole of Chennai from September 1.

The decision was taken at a meeting at the Prime Minister's residence this evening after which the Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said efforts would be made to make CAS as "consumer-friendly" as possible. The Government had decided to defer CAS from July 15 to September 1, and go in for a zone-wise introduction in the four cities earlier this month. The meeting was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, the Law Minister, Arun Jaitley, the BJP president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, and leaders from Delhi, V.K. Malhotra and Madan Lal Khurana. This was the fourth meeting at the Prime Minister's residence on CAS in recent weeks.

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