Lata Mangeshkar lauded Javed Akhtar for working on the issue of royalty to singers and writers and said that when she was a Rajya Sabha MP for six years, she never did anything in this regard as it did not strike her then but welcomes this move by the Government, wherein musicians, singers and writers will get royalty. Javed Akhtar also thanked the Government for taking a stand on this issue and looking at it from a humanitarian point of view.