Source: defenceforumindia.com
New Delhi, Oct. 1: Prasar Bharati has requested the Centre to free the news sections of Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) from bureaucratic control and get them run by media professionals instead.
The proposal, part of a larger plan aimed at securing greater economy for the public broadcaster, was made in a resolution the Prasar Bharati board passed recently. It said the ministry should help ensure professionalism by amending rules to permit professionals to join as director-generals and additional-director generals of AIR and DD.
Another issue was "dual control" over the news divisions. This, the board resolution said, happens because of the total control of the ministry over Indian Information Service (IIS) officers — a specialised cadre of bureaucrats who run the divisions — "without the scantiest of regard for Prasar Bharati".
Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar asserted that the goal was maximum autonomy. "We are.....................
Read more at http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/politics-society/54691-prasar-bharati-push-freedom-control.html
New Delhi, Oct. 1: Prasar Bharati has requested the Centre to free the news sections of Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) from bureaucratic control and get them run by media professionals instead.
The proposal, part of a larger plan aimed at securing greater economy for the public broadcaster, was made in a resolution the Prasar Bharati board passed recently. It said the ministry should help ensure professionalism by amending rules to permit professionals to join as director-generals and additional-director generals of AIR and DD.
Another issue was "dual control" over the news divisions. This, the board resolution said, happens because of the total control of the ministry over Indian Information Service (IIS) officers — a specialised cadre of bureaucrats who run the divisions — "without the scantiest of regard for Prasar Bharati".
Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar asserted that the goal was maximum autonomy. "We are.....................
Read more at http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/politics-society/54691-prasar-bharati-push-freedom-control.html
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