NEW RECRUITMENT FOR PRASAR BHARATI

A total of 8018 personnel would be required for the operation and maintenance of newly sanctioned projects of All India Radio (2183) and Doordarshan (5835), according to sources. This is in addition to 3452 posts lying vacant and considered by Prasar Bharati as priority.
The Group of Ministers has approved a scheme worked out with the Finance Ministry for this purpose.
Earlier this year, the Prasar Bharati Board considered the long-pending Recruitment Rules for 196 cadres of employees in Prasar Bharati for forwarding to Government. Non-existence of these rules ever since Prasar Bharati came into being in 1997 was a major reason for the huge backlog in filling up the vacancies and making vital appointments, something which has come under heavy criticism in Parliamentary Committees.

GOVERNMENT MEETING SALARY OF PRASAR BHARATI EMPLOYEES

The GoM on Prasar Bharati has recommended that the Government should meet total salary of the employees of the organisation and expenses related to their pay while other expenses shall be borne by the national broadcaster from its internal revenue earnings.

"The projections of Prasar Bharati, duly approved by its board, were considered by the GoM and it recommended that during the next five years, Government non-plan support would be extended for meeting 100 per cent expenses towards salary and salary-related expenses and augmentation and replacement of capital assets.Based on an earlier projection, the GoM had initially recommended that 50 per cent of the annual operating expenses of Prasar Bharati should be borne by it and remaining 50 per cent will be met from non-plan grants-in-aid by the Government. 
          The recommendation of the GoM on the revised funding pattern of Prasar Bharati is based on future revenue earning potential of the organisation, its role as a public broadcaster and to address the concerns of the employee organisations.

NEWDELHI VISIT UPDATE

We have met the Joint Secretary to Honble PM shri.L K Atheeq who is dealing with Doordarshan on 3rd August and the Joint secretary(Broadcasting) shri .Arvind Kumar on 1st August and also shri.Tripurari Sharan  our new DG on 1st August and Discussed about our Professional Cadre's Grievances in detail and submitted our views on the recommendations of COJS Report as invited from us by the Prasar Bharati Secretariat vide letter no.10/127/2006 PPC vol-111( pt 11(a))dated 27/7/2011 to the concerned authorities for onward transmission to Ministry of I&B which has to be placed before the next GOM meeting  for final decisions-All the competent authorities we met assured their full cooperation to resolve our long pending Wage anomaly issue-The matter pertaining to our wage anomaly issue will be solved within September 2011