Satellite uplinking facility through VSNL is already being provided to Indian-managed companies, having minimum 80 per cent Indian equity holdings, specifically to those who had been availing foreign exchange for hiring uplinking facilities from abroad, minister of state for information and broadcasting Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said in a written reply.

Uplinking from India has been envisaged in three phases, he said.Private Indian channels uplinking through VSNL would adhere to programme and advertising code of Prasar Bharati, the minister said.

He also informed that action has been initiated for carrying out certain amendments in the Cable Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, to bring programmes transmitted by cable operators through free-to-air foreign satellite channels within the ambit of prescribed codes of cable law.