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Limit number of episodes in a TV serial to avoid viewers becoming TV-addicted

Kashmir Times. Dated: 9/16/2019 11:40:17 AM

Dear Editor,
It refers to media-reports that a Hindi TV serial has reached its 3000th episode on a private TV channel. Continuance of TV serials for years after years with even change in generations of the characters shown in such TV serials makes viewers TV-addicted with unimaginable number of total man-hours viewing TV-serials only adversely affecting studies of students and proper attention to children by mothers who are victims of such addiction. Already social media has ruined life-style and working-efficiency of all including office-goers.
Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting should regulate maximum number of episodes in a normal TV serial to say 52 (one year). However such a restriction may not be there on epic-serials and TV serials with single story in each episode.
—Madhu Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah
Dariba, Chandni Chowk
Delhi