More space, please

Shastri Bhavan, which houses information officers (IOs) for most central government ministries and departments, is in the middle of a transition. There’s a suggestion within the government that the IOs should shift permanently to their respective ministry offices in other government buildings so that Shastri Bhavan is left with more space for pressing assignments. At present, the information and broadcasting ministry, which has the Press Information Bureau (PIB) under its wing, is busy working towards the goal of cable TV digitisation target and it says it needs more space to accommodate personnel to ensure that the targets are met. The sunset date for completely digitising the cable TV system in the four major cities is June 2012, while the full country is to be digitised in phases by December 2014. The government had tried this earlier too through the conditional access system and had failed. This time it seems it does not want to take chances, and is demanding more space to do it!