Total Pageviews

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Free Prasar Bharati of Government Control

Source: The New Indian Express
Published Date: Dec 25, 2013

Last week, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting earned a well-deserved and stinging rebuke for its non-serious approach towards reforming Prasar Bharati. A parliamentary standing committee admonished the ministry for doing precious little on its advice to review the institutional framework of the public broadcaster in collaboration with the Sam Pitroda committee. Far from taking meaningful steps, it left the matter of improving Prasar Bharati's services entirely to its board and staff. Earlier this year, the government's much-touted effort to improve DD News turned out to be a damp squib after one of the high-profile editors, brought in specially for this purpose, quit his job in disgust.

All this is because of a basic problem which the government has not been able to resolve. It professes to free Doordarshan and All India Radio from.................

Read more at http://www.newindianexpress.com/editorials/Free-Prasar-Bharati-of-Government-Control/2013/12/25/article1963485.ece?service=print 

1 comment: