"The state government has requested the Centre to extend the deadline for digitisation," Urban Development minister Firhad Hakim told reporters here after a meeting with cable operators and multiple system operators (MSOs) who expressed inability to meet the deadline.
Hakim said that the cable operators had asked him to urge Centre for extension of deadline as it was not possible for them to meet it since they had received only 40 to 50 per cent of set top boxes.
The minister said that the government should manufacture set top boxes instead of importing them.