<p>An inter-ministerial empowered committee will be set up soon to facilitate single-window clearance of applications by foreign filmmakers seeking to shoot their movies in India.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We are in the process of issuing a notification shortly in this regard,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said at a function organised here to release the Limca Book of Records, 2013. The proposed committee would include representatives of the state governments and “key” central government ministries, he added. <br /><br />This comes over a year after both tourism and information and broadcasting ministries joined hands to work on a proposal to create a single-window system to give clearance for shooting foreign films in India. The move was purported to attract foreign tourists. <br /><br />The present process to accord permission to filmmakers for shooting in India is very complex as they have to get clearances from many departments, a tourism ministry official said.<br /><br />“The creation of such an empowered committee would provide the platform and impetus to promote India as a filming destination across the world,” Tewari said. The Justice Mudgal Committee, set up to review the mandate of the Central Board of Film <br />Certification (CBFC) and suggest measures to improve its functioning, was expected to submit its report “shortly,” he added.<br /><br />Among various issues, the committee was looking into the requirement of statutory changes to enable the CBFC deal with contemporary requirements of certification and increased transparency and efficiency. <br /><br />It will also review the categories of certification, existing and proposed, under the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2013.<br /></p>
<p>An inter-ministerial empowered committee will be set up soon to facilitate single-window clearance of applications by foreign filmmakers seeking to shoot their movies in India.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We are in the process of issuing a notification shortly in this regard,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari said at a function organised here to release the Limca Book of Records, 2013. The proposed committee would include representatives of the state governments and “key” central government ministries, he added. <br /><br />This comes over a year after both tourism and information and broadcasting ministries joined hands to work on a proposal to create a single-window system to give clearance for shooting foreign films in India. The move was purported to attract foreign tourists. <br /><br />The present process to accord permission to filmmakers for shooting in India is very complex as they have to get clearances from many departments, a tourism ministry official said.<br /><br />“The creation of such an empowered committee would provide the platform and impetus to promote India as a filming destination across the world,” Tewari said. The Justice Mudgal Committee, set up to review the mandate of the Central Board of Film <br />Certification (CBFC) and suggest measures to improve its functioning, was expected to submit its report “shortly,” he added.<br /><br />Among various issues, the committee was looking into the requirement of statutory changes to enable the CBFC deal with contemporary requirements of certification and increased transparency and efficiency. <br /><br />It will also review the categories of certification, existing and proposed, under the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2013.<br /></p>
