NEW DELHI: A task force has been set up by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry under the chairman of the Special Secretary Uday Verma to recommend measures to combat film, video, cable and video piracy. Radio Mirchi CEO Prashant Panday has been pencilled in to be on the force too.

The Task Force will have filmmaker Yash Chopra, Film & Television Producers' Guild of India President Manmohan Shetty; former Film Federation of India President G. Adisheshagiri Rao; Indian Broadcasting Foundation President Jawahar Goel, and Association of Radio Operators of India member Prashant Panday.

The Task Force will hold consultations with State Governments as well as stakeholders before finalizing their recommendations and submit its report within a period of six months - before 18 June 2010.

The decision to form the Task Force had been taken keeping following the recommendations of the 27th State Information Ministers' Conference (SIMCON) held here on 5 December 2009.