Mumbai: The minister of information and broadcasting, sports & youth affairs, Anurag Thakur said that the government supports self-regulation for OTT industry. He said while addressing the inaugural of CNN-News18 Town Hall recently.

“When we decided on self-regulation on OTT, we wanted to create an industry driven check on everything,” Thakur said.

Thakur said that systems and processes were already in place for viewers to raise any complaints or grievances. He said that in case the government had any complaints with any scenes, they raise it directly with the platforms.

“There are age groups, where a viewer can submit their credentials and watch whatever they wish to. We have never stopped a movie, or certification. But in case there are complaints for a particular scene we do raise the same with the platforms and the same is usually taken down by themselves to ensure that there is no tension in the country.” Thakur added.

CNN-News18 hosted the inaugural session of 'Town Hall,' an on-ground event where top policy makers, opinion leaders and prominent voices engage in meaningful conversations with the channel’s news team.

The first edition of Town Hall was held on Saturday with top union ministers of the Narendra Modi government such as Dr S Jaishankar, Anurag Thakur and Smriti Irani were present.