Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has floated global tenders for the supply of studio equipment, as well as for the supply of 1,100 set top boxes for digital terrestrial television.

The earnest money deposit (EMD) amount for the boxes has been fixed at Rs 200,000 or $ 4082. Among the other equipment required by Prasar Bharati are 32 teleprompters, digital edit VCRs, routing switchers, high quality character generators, plasma monitors, audio video monitoring stations and digital phone in units, among others.

The tenders, according to the pubcaster, will be on the basis of 'two bid system' and are open to Indian manufacturing firms, PSUs and Indian agents and representatives of foreign suppliers. The technical bids for the set top boxes will be opened on 5 August.