Indian Govt denies dispute between DD and CGW partner SIS

The Government today denied that any conflict had arisen between Doordarshan and its international partner for the Commonwealth Games 2010, Satellite Information Services Live, over the fee to be paid to the British consortium.

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting S Jagathrakshakan told Parliament that the agreement with SIS was for a contract price of Rs 2.46 billion and there was no dispute on this.

He said in reply to a question by a member of Parliament that the amount had been based in total evaluated cost from the accepted financial bid and after negotiations with SIS.

The questioner had wanted to know whether it was a fact that SIS had threatened to back out from mutually agreed terms and had demanded an additional amount of Rs 2.50 billion.