The Shashi Tharoor-headed Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology could take up the issue for conversation.

A day after Mumbai Police said it had busted a "racket" of "false" control of Television Rating Points (TRPs) including three stations, there were signs that the Shashi Tharoor-headed Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology could take up the issue for conversation. 

There is "extensive enthusiasm" in the board of trustees in taking up the issue, it is found out. The view is that the issue falls inside the domain of the board. 

Making his view known, Karti Chidambaram, one of the individuals from the board of trustees, has kept in touch with Tharoor requesting that he take up the issue for conversation. 

On Thursday, Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh tended to a public interview guaranteeing that the police had busted a racket enjoying deceitful control of TRPs and named three TV stations — Arnab Goswami's Republic TV, Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema – which he said have been discovered to enjoy such misbehaviors. 

In his letter to Tharoor on Friday, Chidambaram said that "the ongoing issues encompassing" TRPs of TV stations "have projected questions on the authenticity and unwavering quality of the framework". He said that the "TRPs produce fundamental information on TV crowds in India and have become the essential reason for publicizing choices". 

He referenced that the administration's "publicizing use relies upon this framework, yet open spending ought not be founded on imperfect information". 

"There is a need to comprehend this circumstance. Considering this, it is significant that the Standing Committee on Information Technology take up this issue. Subsequently, I demand you to call before the Committee concerned authorities of the mindful service, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, to look for essential explanation on the current circumstance and medicinal measures," Chidambaram composed. 

The following gathering of the advisory group is on October 15. The plan for the following gathering incorporates hearing the "delegates of News Broadcasters Association, Press Council of India and Prasar Bharati regarding the matter 'Moral Standards in Media Coverage'". The News Broadcasters Association is an industry body for TV news. 

The plan likewise incorporates taking "oral proof of the delegates" of the I&B Ministry on Ethical Standards in Media Coverage. 

Addressing Times Now on Friday, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the "TRP framework is overseen by BARC" and is a "production of the telecasters themselves". He encouraged the telecasters to "improve the framework" if there are any issues. "I state media ought not be TRP-driven," he said. 

Responding to the Mumbai Police Commissioner's announcement, Republic TV had said that it was not named in the FIR. The FIR, it stated, had rather named another channel and claimed that Singh had made bogus charges. 

"We found that a few channels were paying previous representatives of office Hansa Research Group, which is shrunk by BARC to do the exploration, to control TRPs in support of themselves. This is mostly in the Mumbai locale," the Police Commissioner had said. "They thus were paying sure families chose for setting up BAR-o-meters."