More than 10,000 posts lying vacant at All India Radio

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First Published: Tue, Feb 26 2013. 05 50 PM IST

 

The AIR headquarters in New Delhi. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

 

New Delhi: More than 10,000 posts are lying vacant in the All India Radio (AIR) and more than 6,000 posts are vacant at Doordarshan, the government said on Tuesday.

Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said that as of 1 december 2012, the number of vacant posts at AIR and Doordarshan stood at 10,081 and 6,186, respectively. He was responding to a question in the Lok Sabha.

In a response to another question, the minister said there has been a significant increase in Prasar Bharati's expenditure in the wake of the various recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission. A gradual growth in the revenue of the Prasar Bharati is being witnessed, Tewari said. PTI

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