Cabinet Clears Amendments To The Prasar Bharati Bill

Source of Article: United News of India, HT Media Ltd

November 1, 2011

 

New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- The Union Cabinet today cleared the proposal to make some official amendments to the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Amendment Bill, 2010 pending in Rajya Sabha in Parliament. One of the amendments is to Section 11(2) of the Act to make the status of the Prasar Bharati employees clear. Now words and until their retirement have been added at the end of the section, which would make the status of the employees recruited between November 23, 1997 and October 5, 2007, as on deemed deputation to Prasar Bharati till their retirement absolutely clear and unambiguous. The Cabinet also approved the action taken on the recommendations made in the Eighteenth Report on Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Amendment Bill, 2010 of the Standing Committee on Information Technology. The Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Amendment Bill, 2010Bill 2010 had been introduced in the Rajya Sabha in August, 2010. UNI NAZ ASH 1452 Published by HT Syndication with permission from United News of India. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com