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Radio Kashmir employs many visually and physically handicapped as contract employees. Though they earn a meagre sum, for some it is the only source of income and a dignified livelihood. Shafath Hussain reports
When he is airing the sports news on Radio Kashmir Srinagar, it looks as if he was there when India played Australia or was an eyewitness to the Rafael Nadal’s seven straight victories in Monte Carlo. But Aijaz Sofi, the anchor, has never seen a cricket ball or a tennis match. Aijaz is blind from birth. There are many more like him working in the Radio Kashmir Srinagar, who have limited capabilities but use them to their fullest.
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DD’s DTH arm slot auction set to fetch R400 Crore.
In what would be a global first, public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is gearing up to auction slots on its free-to-air DTH arm, DD Direct Plus, to private broadcasters. At a base price of R1-1.5 crore per channel and with over 250 channels in queue to join DD Direct Plus, experts reckon that Prasar Bharati could generate R360-400 crore in the first year itself.
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Media Matters - Questionable reforms
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While the Information and Broadcasting ministry is trying to amend the Prasar Bharati Act to make those in-charge more accountable, confusion prevails in the day-to-day running of the corporation.
Once badly bitten, twice shy. A ministry and minister that spent much of 2010 trying to rein in suspended Prasar Bharati CEO B.S. Lalli, are now looking to amend the Prasar Bharati Act which made it difficult to remove him. While Mr. Lalli is under suspension for questionable deals and contracts related to the Commonwealth Games, Ambika Soni and her officials are trying to prevent a repeat of a situation where autonomy mandated by law makes top officials difficult to remove.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has proposed amendments to the Prasar Bharati Act to the Group of Ministers on Prasar Bharati. The goal is to increase the powers of the government over the supposedly autonomous broadcaster, and to use the current vacuum at the operational level to give the ministry leverage in the Prasar Bharati Board. At this point there is neither a CEO, nor Director Generals for All India Radio and Doordarshan.
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CAT fiat to Prasar Bharati on AIR, DD Directors-General appointment
The Principal Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal here has directed the Officer on Special Duty, Prasar Bharati, to file an affidavit explaining the sequence of events from March 21 on the revised recommendations of the selection committee for the posts of Director-Generals of All India Radio/Doordarshan.
The Bench, comprising Chairman Justice V.K. Bali and Vice-Chairman L.K. Joshi, gave this interim direction on G. Jayalal's application that challenged the revised recommendations and the subsequent order of March 30 by which L.D. Mandloi was given current charge as DG of AIR in addition to his charge as DG of Doordarshan.
According to the applicant, the selection committee met on March 15 and selected three persons for the post of DG of Doordarshan in the order of merit, viz, Mr. Mandloi, Tripurari Sharan and Ram Subhag Singh. For the post of DG, AIR, the names of Mr. Jayalal (applicant) and Mr. Mandloi were recommended in the order of merit.
However, even before the panel of names could be sent to the government for appointment, the recommendations were arbitrarily revised on March 21. For the AIR DG post, Mr. Mandloi was selected as the first name and the applicant was shown in the second rank in the order of merit.
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