A Kannada language TV channel, Public TV, was served a show cause notice by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for airing a programme in which it was claimed that the government was planning to drop money from helicopters to the poor during the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19. The channel said that the programme now uploaded to the channels YouTube account, was a serious discussion on the economic concept of helicopter money and does not discuss the government dropping money out of helicopters.Helicopter money is a term used in India to describe the quantitative easing policy, where currency notes are increased and more money is pumped into the market.