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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Prasar Bharati to get enhanced grants-in-aid for interim budget 2014-15

Source: RadioandMusic.com | RnM Team    17 Feb 14 18:42 IST

NEW DELHI: The grants-in-aid for Prasar Bharati has been raised marginally from the revised estimates of Rs 2089.56 crore in 2013-14 to Rs 2331.58 crore while there is no separate investment by the Government in the pubcaster for the second year in a row.

In the interim budget (vote-on-account) for 2014-15 presented in Parliament for the first four months of the New Year 2014-15 in view of the general elections later this year, the government has made provision of Rs 200 crore from Internal and Extra-budgetary resources for Prasar Bharati and the total plan outlay for broadcasting is Rs 641.58 crore.

An explanatory memorandum says this includes the grants-in-aid towards meeting the salary and salary related expenditure.

Prasar Bharati sources said this had been done to....................


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