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dated July 28, 1957: Television unit for Delhi

Prime Minister Nehru said in the Lok Sabha on July 26 that his statement in the House during the last session that the Government were not eager to go ahead with television “did not mean that we should not experiment with it. There is a difference between starting a television system in New Delhi and being ready for it by experimenting with it, so that when we choose to start we will have some trained personnel.” Earlier, Mr. Raj Bahadur, replying on behalf of the Information and Broadcasting Minister, said that due to financial stringency and shortage of foreign exchange the setting up of a television station in Bombay had been postponed but the question of having an experimental unit in Delhi was still under consideration. He said the Delhi unit was an experimental one and they had got some of the equipment for it. Mrs. Renu Chakravarty asked whether the equipment had already arrived or whether orders for it had yet to be placed. Mr. Raj Bahadur said 50 per cent of the equipment had already arrived.

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