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30% POSTS
UNFILLED IN PRASAR BHARA
All India Radio
and Doordarshan have 30 per cent of their posts unfilled,
according to a Parliamentary Committee report. The
state-owned AIR and DD have a total staff strength of
33,800 against a total sanctioned strength of 48,022,
leaving a gap of 14222 posts. The most critically affected
areas are the Programme Wing and the News Services
Division (AIR)/DD News.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information
Technology has said that it has 'consistently been
exhorting' the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to
fill up the critical vacancies in DD and AIR. The
Committee again exhorted the Department to settle the
issues with various Ministries and fast track the
recruitment rules and setting up of recruitment board. The
Committee also regretted that Prasar Bharati had failed to
live up to the assurance given by then Prasar Bharati CEO
that the recruitment boards for Prasar Bharati would be
set up by 31 March 2011. "Now, when full one year has
elapsed since then, the issues have still not been settled
resulting in further delay in filling up these vacancies,"
the Committee noted.
The Committee had been informed that the notification with
regard to setting up of Recruitment Board is under
inter-Ministerial consultation. The Committee was given to
understand that there are still some issues to be resolved
between the Ministry/Department of Expenditure and the
Department of Personnel. UPSC and SSC refuse to set up
recruitment boards for Prasar Bharati UPSC and SSC have
both refused to select for a non-Governmental organisation,
thus creating a new problem for the Ministry/Prasar
Bharati.
The proposal for setting up a Prasar Bharati Recruitment
Board was approved by Prasar Bharati Board on 21 July 2010
and discussed in the Ministry and a final proposal was
referred to the Department of Personnel and Training on 15
February 2011. DOP&T concurred with the proposal in June
2011 and the comments of the Department of Expenditure
(DOE) were also received on 28 September last year. The
DoE had requested that a separate proposal be formulated
for creation of posts for the secretariat of Prasar
Bharati Recruitment Board and also requested for drafting
of agreement containing terms and conditions of the
members of the Board.
This had been done and the proposal sent to DoE in
February 2012 and would then be sent to Law Ministry.
In its report in August last year, the Committee had urged
Prasar Bharati to send a proposal for filling up 3452
essential categories of posts to the DoE, based on the
report of the National Productivity Council giving full
justification for such recruitment. The Ministry is now in
the process of seeking cabinet approval, for which a
cabinet note has already been circulated for
inter-Ministerial consultation. After obtaining the
approval of the Cabinet, Prasar Bharati shall undertake
the process for filling up the essential category of
posts.
[Indiantelevision.com]
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