Source: The Indian Express | B.G. Verghese
February 19, 2014 9:40 am
SUMMARY
The Sam Pitroda committee report offers a starting point.
As India is in transition from rural to urban, agriculture to industry, local to global, information is the key to empowerment and social awareness. File Photo
The Sam Pitroda committee report offers a starting point.
India is in dire need of broadcast autonomy, especially in the form of a truly autonomous, even if state-assisted, public service broadcaster. This was a promise made by Nehru to Parliament in 1948. But it is yet to be redeemed. The post-Emergency 1977-78 broadcast autonomy committee, in its report “Akash Bharati”, presented a blueprint for autonomy. That was dumbed down by the Janata government and a Prasar Bharati bill was finally enacted in 1990, brought into force in 1997 and emasculated almost ab initio.
What the government wanted, with cross-party political support, was some kind of......................
Read more at http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/unshackling-prasar-bharati/
February 19, 2014 9:40 am
SUMMARY
The Sam Pitroda committee report offers a starting point.
The Sam Pitroda committee report offers a starting point.
India is in dire need of broadcast autonomy, especially in the form of a truly autonomous, even if state-assisted, public service broadcaster. This was a promise made by Nehru to Parliament in 1948. But it is yet to be redeemed. The post-Emergency 1977-78 broadcast autonomy committee, in its report “Akash Bharati”, presented a blueprint for autonomy. That was dumbed down by the Janata government and a Prasar Bharati bill was finally enacted in 1990, brought into force in 1997 and emasculated almost ab initio.
What the government wanted, with cross-party political support, was some kind of......................
Read more at http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/unshackling-prasar-bharati/
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