The government today made it clear that no further extension will be given to the mandatory cable digitisation in the four metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. This was stated by Secretary in the ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Uday Kumar Varma while addressing a round table on implementation of cable digitisation. According to the law enacted by Parliament, over 12 million homes with television in metros have to move to digital signals by 31st of October this year.

Earlier the ministry decided to modify the 30th June deadline for a complete switch over to 31st of October. Mr Verma also rejected the suggestion that digitisation process in Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai was very slow.

AIR correspondent reports, the Ministry has launched the ambitious task of completing digital switchover of the existing analogue cable TV in the country in a phased and time-bound manner by December 31, 2014.