New IIMC DG Sanjay Dwivedi and newly formed Prasar Bharati Recruitment board’s chief Jagdish Upasane have had Sangh Parivar connections for a long time.
The government is in the process of reconstituting the Prasar Bharati board as nine of the board's 13 positions had been vacant for the last few months.
In episode 508 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta said Prasar Bharati’s threat to the PTI over its reportage is outrageous, wrong and unfair.
The move by Prasar Bharati comes following a demand from people for a re-run of Ramanand Sagar's Shri Krishna, which was first aired in 1996 on Doordarshan.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
It is strange that a 300 meter high Prasar Bharati (DD and AIR) tower was constructed at a contracted cost of approximately rupees 17 crores at village Gharinda on Grand Trunk Road in Amritsar between 2007 and 2013. Prasar Bharati giving an unconvinceable reason of its being slightly bent, has refused to take it over. Instead another amount of approximately one crore of rupees has been spent on constructing a temporary 100 meter high tower near it and the high powered 20 kilowatt FM transmitter antenna has been installed on it, which neither satisfactorily reaches downtown area of Amritsar nor the downtown area of Lahore. This arrangement is continuing for the past two years. Coming from the top of a 300 meter high antenna, a 20 kilowatt transmitter has a range of 60+ miles or 100 kilometers. But due to the inadequate height of the transmitting antenna the range gets restricted to 30 miles or 50 kilometers. As a result we are covering 60 lakh population in Pakistan and 60 lakhs in India. The full potential is 2.5 crores in Pakistan and 1.5 crores in India. The 300 meter high structure is not unsafe, it is imperfect. The biggest loser is the external service of All India Radio.
It is strange that a 300 meter high Prasar Bharati (DD and AIR) tower was constructed at a contracted cost of approximately rupees 17 crores at village Gharinda on Grand Trunk Road in Amritsar between 2007 and 2013. Prasar Bharati giving an unconvinceable reason of its being slightly bent, has refused to take it over. Instead another amount of approximately one crore of rupees has been spent on constructing a temporary 100 meter high tower near it and the high powered 20 kilowatt FM transmitter antenna has been installed on it, which neither satisfactorily reaches downtown area of Amritsar nor the downtown area of Lahore. This arrangement is continuing for the past two years. Coming from the top of a 300 meter high antenna, a 20 kilowatt transmitter has a range of 60+ miles or 100 kilometers. But due to the inadequate height of the transmitting antenna the range gets restricted to 30 miles or 50 kilometers. As a result we are covering 60 lakh population in Pakistan and 60 lakhs in India. The full potential is 2.5 crores in Pakistan and 1.5 crores in India. The 300 meter high structure is not unsafe, it is imperfect. The biggest loser is the external service of All India Radio.