'Prasar Bharati a Humpty Dumpty'

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The Prasar Bharati, said Verghese, has been a Cheshire cat with a small grin
that had expanded a bit but that had again started contracting. Run by the
ministry, the Prasar Bharati was not a board but a signboard, he added. ‘‘A
Humpty Dumpty they began to put back together but that was again dealt a sad
blow.’’ His comments, coming in the wake of I&B Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
asking Director General Doordarshan S.Y. Quraishi to step down, surprised
everyone.

Contacted by The Indian Express, Verghese stood by his comments, saying no
one has understood the Prasar Bharati properly. ‘‘I blame everyone—the
media, the Government, the I&B Ministry—for this.’’ He charges that Charter
12 of the Prasar Bharati Act—which talks about the functions and powers of
the corporation, detailing its role as a public service broadcaster—is being
followed fitfully or not at all due to lack of interest of the people
concerned. Given that it gets its personnel from the Government and its
funding from the I&B Ministry, the Prasar Bharati’s functioning has been
cramped, Verghese added. 

Source:
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=31844