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Information and Broadcasting Ministry has begun a chain of meetings with cable operators, MSOs and other stakeholders to fix up the dates of digitisation.

Additional Secretary Rajiv Takru, Joint Secretary Arvind Kumar, and Deputy Secretary KS Rejimohan called the meeting where the cable operators and multi-system operators (MSOs) put their opinion.

Those who were present included MSO Alliance president Ashok Mansukhani, Cable Operators Federation of India (COFI) president Roop Sharma, Digicable north regional head Anil Malhotra, and Den Networks president SN Sharma among others.

Responding to the Government's suggestions to Trai's earlier report, the regulator suggested all the four metro cities Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai should shift to digital by 31 December this year. For cities having a population of over one million, it has suggested December 2012 as the timeline. More meetings may be held with stakeholders before the Ministry firms up its views on the sunset date for digitisation.