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Monday, January 27, 2014

Pitroda Committee: Prasar Bharati should be free of govt hold

Source: IndianTelevision.com | Reported by B B Nagpal
Posted on : 24 Jan 2014 07:36 pm

NEW DELHI:  A high-level committee under veteran technocrat Sam Pitroda set up to review the working of Prasar Bharati has stressed the need for constituting a Parliamentary Committee, as originally envisaged in the Prasar Bharati Act 1990 to ensure that the pubcaster discharges its duties in accordance with the provisions of the Act and Government defined duties.
 
In the report submitted today to the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari, it has recommended reorganisation of the pubcaster Board to make it a professionally managed body and make it more effective in guiding the organisation.
 
Noting that Prasar Bharati's vision must be to become a genuine 'public broadcaster' as against a 'government broadcaster', Pitroda told a press meet after submission of the report that....................

Read more at http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/terrestrial/pitroda-committee-prasar-bharati-should-be-free-of-govt-hold-140124 

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