GOVERNMENT TO CONSIDER MODEL CINEMA
REGULATIONS
The
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting would take steps to evolve
"Model Cinema Regulations" which could be adopted by the
States. A delegation of the Multiplexes Association of India met
the Minister of Information & Broadcasting, Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasad here today and pointed out that the regulatory provisions
in different States suffer from multiplicity, oblivity, subjectivity
and archaic applications. They requested that the model cinema regulations
framed in consultation with the industry should be applicable uniformally
across the States.
The Minister of Information
& Broadcasting, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad appreciated the need
for uniform regulations and asked the FICCI to prepare a draft
of "Model Cinema Regulations", which could be circulated
among all the States to elicit their views on it. He said, the
Ministry would then call a meeting of the States to discuss and
finalize the Regulations, which may be adopted by the States.
Dr. Amit Mitra of
FICCI, who led the delegation, said that Cinema Regulations of
States, often conflict with development control regulations of
cities, though both cover the same issues. They also do not recognize
companies as applicants and licences are issued to individuals
and are not transferable. He said, location NOC procedure and
criteria in many States is discretionary, construction permission
is required from licensing authorities, cinemas are presumed to
be stand-alone buildings and seat layouts aisle restrictions,
screen distance, ventilations requirements, projection room, stair-case,
electrical restrictions may be scrapped for safety reasons.
