Prasar Bharati sets up recruitment board for first time

Prasar Bharati has set up a board for recruitment of thousands of programming, engineering, transmission and other executives up to the level of Directors for the first time since it was established in 1997. There are thousands of vacancies at these levels in both All India Radio and Doordarshan.

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The six-member board will be headed by senior journalist Jagdish Upasane, who is a director of Bharat Prakashan, the group that publishes RSS mouthpieces Panchajanya and Organiser.

The provisions for the creation of the recruitment board were mentioned in the Prasar Bharati Act of 1990, but it had not been created since Prasar Bharati was set up in 1997, when the Act came into force.

In February 2020, the government notified the rules for creation of the recruitment board.

The new recruitment board “shall hold the competitive examination or departmental examination or conduct interviews for selection of candidates” and “shall shortlist and recommend to the (Prasar Bharati) Board candidates for appointment thereto”.

Prasar Bharati

Prasar Bharati is the India’s largest Public Service Broadcaster.

Prasar Bharati is a statutory autonomous body established under the Prasar Bharati Act.

It comprises the Doordarshan Television Network and All India Radio, which were earlier media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.