[Reader-list] Make Prasar Bharati (DD and AIR) truly autonomous

[Sagnik Chakravartty]

Dear friends,
  It is high time we wake up to the fact that Prasar Bharati Broadcasting Corporation of India, controlling DD and AIR be truly and genuinely autonomous as is the case of BBC...... Though autonomous on paper, the corporation is still supported by Government of India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The news wing of Prasar Bharati (DD and AIR) have full time IIS officers as their media heads and owe their loyalty to MIB and are infocrats. 
  The welfare of the people of India, should be the underlying motive of Prasar Bharati and not be construed as one body which might be thought to be a shield in the hands of successive governments to propogate their policies and programmes which might be detrimental to the interests of people. Prasar Bharati is a public broadcaster which means that people have a sense of belonging and their problems and aspirations should be reflected. But ministers of successive governments have failed to make Prasar Bharati modelled on the lines of BBC.....
  Hopefully, our executive and legislature and judiciary are seriously thinking about making prasar bharati autonomous for a democratic india....... Political manipulations which characterise the recruitment procedure should be done away with........
   
  Please comment and react... I am sure there is scope for debate and discussion... But as always there is light at the end of the tunnel.... PSBT - Public Service Broadcasting Trust joining hands with Prasar Bharati has brought forth the aspect of public broadcasting in the public domain....PSBT epitomises the principles of broadcasting - pluralistic and participative which steers clear of state control as well as market interests.......this should be the model for prasar bharati if it has to achieve the level of BBC....... 
   
  Bye and Cheers
  Sagnik Chakravartty,
  Copy Writer, Doordarshan News,
  New Delhi.
  (Engaged on a BECIL contract)
  Phone 9868568921))

       
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