Cable TV digitisation yields results
23-02-14 Cable TV digitisation yields results: Rise in entertainment duty recovery * Before installation of set top boxes in Nagpur district, cable TV connections were only 88,000. At the end of January 2014, the number has increased to a whopping 4.99 lakh By Kartik Lokhande Digitisation of cable television or installation of set top boxes (STBs) met with opposition and criticism from cable operators one year ago. However, digitisation appears to have yielded positive results for the Government at least on the count of revenue collection. As against the target of Rs 22.90 crore for collection of entertainment duty in six districts of Nagpur Division, Revenue Department has recorded recovery of Rs 22.03 crore, that too, at the end of January itself. The targets and recovery relate to financial year that starts on April 1 of a year and ends on March 31 of the next year. As against the target of Rs 21.15 crore for 2012-13, the recovery of entertainment duty was Rs 1...