India's Information and Broadcasting Ministry will soon issue a warning to television channels against airing programmes that promote superstition and occult practices.

Shows on occult and superstition on Hindi and vernacular language channels are said to garner high television ratings.

The government had planned to ban such programmes under a proposed content code, but the move failed to take off in the wake of resistance from the television industry.

As there are no specific guidelines for such programmes, the ministry has asked an inter-ministerial committee to look into the matter.

Last week, the committee decided to issue the warning as it was felt that "aggressively" showing such programmes was promoting irrationality.

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry then drew up a list of channels which need to be warned. "It would be a general warning to deter (them) from showing such shows," a ministry official said.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi had earlier hauled up news channels for showing special programmes allegedly propagating superstition and occult practices.

However, news broadcasters said such programmes were being shown only to create awareness among viewers against such ills, reports the Hindustan Times.

Source: abu.org.my

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