The President may suspend from office the Chairman or other Member, except an ex-officio Member, the Nominated Member or an elected Member, in respect of whom a reference has been made to the Supreme Court under sub-section 1 until the president has passed orders on receipt of the report of the Superme Court on such reference.
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section 1 , the President may, by order, remove the Chairman or any Whole-time Member from his office if such Chairman or such Whole-time Member — ceases to be a citizen of India; or is adjudged an insolvent; or engages during his term of office in any paid employment outside the duties of his office; or is convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude; or is, in the opinion of the President, unfit to continue in office by reason of infirmity of body or mind: Provided that the President may, by order, remove any part-time Member from his office if he is adjudged an insolvent or is convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude or where he is, in the opinion of the President, unfit to continue in office by reason of infirmity of body or mind.
If the Chairman or any Whole-time Member, except any ex-officio Member, the Nominated Member or any elected Member, is, or becomes in any way concerned or interested in any contract or agreement made by or on behalf of the Corporation or the Government of India or the Government of a State or, participates in any way in the profit thereof, or in any benefit or emolument arising there from than as a member, and in common with other members of an incorporated company, he shall, for the purposes of sub-section 1 , be deemed to be guilty of misbehaviour.
If a Part-time Member is, or becomes in any way concerned, or interested in any contract, or agreement made by or on behalf of the Corporation, he shall, for the purposes of sub-section 1 , be deemed to be guilty of misbehaviour. The Chairman or any other Member may resign his office by giving notice thereof in writing to the President of India and on such resignation being accepted, the Chairman or other Member shall be deemed to have vacated his office. Meetings of Board The Board shall meet at such times and places and shall observe such rules of procedure in regard to the transaction of business at its meetings including the quorum at meetings as may be provided by regulations: Provided that there shall not be less than six meetings every year but three months shall not intervene between one meeting and the next meeting.
A Member shall be deemed to have vacated his office if he absents himself for three consecutive meetings of the Board without the leave of the Chairman. The Chairman shall preside at the meetings of the Board and if for any reason he is unable to attend any meeting, the Executive Member and in the absence of both, any other Member elected by the Members present at such meeting, shall preside at the meeting.
All questions which come up before any meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the Members present and voting and, in the event of an equality of votes, the Chairman, or in his absence, the person presiding, shall have and exercise a second or casting vote.
Subject to such control, restrictions and conditions as may be prescribed, the Corporation may appoint, after consultation with the Recruitment Board, the Director-General Akashvani , the Director-General Doordarshan and such other officers and other employees as may be necessary. The method of recruitment of such officers and employees and all other matters connected therewith and the conditions of service of such officers and other employees shall be such as may be provided by regulations.
The Corporation shall, as soon as may be, after the appointed day and in such manner and subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed, establish for the purposes of section 9, one or more Recruitment Boards consisting wholly of persons other than the Members, officers and other employees of the Corporation: Provided that for the purposes of Appointment to the posts carrying scales of pay which are not less than that of a Joint Secretary to the Central Government, the Recruitment Board shall consist of the Chairman, other Members, the ex-officio Members, the Nominated member and the elected Members.
The qualifications and other conditions of service of the members constituting the Recruitment Board and the period for which such members shall hold office, shall be such as may be prescribed.
All officers and employees recruited for the purposes of Akashvani or Doordarshan before the appointed day and in service in the Corporation as on the 1st day of April, , shall be on deemed deputation to the Corporation with effect from the 1st day of April, , and shall so continue till their retirement.
All officers and employees recruited during the period on or after the appointed day till the 5th day of October, shall be deemed on deputation to the Corporation with effect from the 1st day of April, or the date of their joining service in the Corporation, whichever is later and until their retirement. The officers and employees referred to in sub-section 1 and sub-section 2 shall be entitled to the pay and all other benefits as admissible to an employee of the Central Government:Provided that such officers and employees shall not be entitled to any deputation allowance.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Corporation shall have the disciplinary and supervisory powers and full control on the officers and employees referred to in sub-section 1 and sub-section 2 , including the power to transfer them from one place, post or media to another, and suspend, initiate disciplinary proceedings and impose major or minor penalties: Provided that the power to impose major penalties of compulsory retirement, removal or dismissal from service shall be exercised by the Central Government.
All officers and employees recruited after the 5th day of October, shall be officers and employees of the Corporation and shall be governed by such conditions of service as may be specified in the regulations. Section 11 not to apply to certain officers and employees. The provisions of section 11 shall not apply to officers and employees of the Indian Information Service, the Central Secretariat Service or any other service borne on any cadre outside Akashvani or Doordarshan, who have been working in Akashvani or Doordarshan before the appointed day or in service in the Corporation after that day.
The terms and conditions of service in the Corporation of officers and employees referred to in sub-section 1 shall be such as may be prescribed. Transfer of posts of Akashvani and Doordarshan to Corporation. All posts in the erstwhile Akashvani and Doordarshan other than the posts borne on the strength of the cadres referred to in sub-section 2 shall be deemed to have been transferred to the Corporation with effect from the 1st day of April, All matters relating to the posts borne on the strength of the cadres of the Indian Information Service, the Central Secretariat Service or any other cadre outside Akashvani or Doordarshan, in so far as such posts are concerned with the Corporation, shall be determined in such manner and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, it shall be the primary duty of the Corporation to organise and conduct public broadcasting services to inform, educate and entertain the public and to ensure a balanced development of broadcasting on radio and television.
Explanation — For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the provisions of this section shall be in addition to, and not in derogation, of the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act, Nothing in sub-sections 2 and 3 shall prevent the Corporation from managing on behalf of the Central Government and in accordance with such terms and conditions as may be specified by that Government the broadcasting of External Services and monitoring of broadcasts made by organisations outside India on the basis of arrangements made for reimbursement of expenses by the Central Government.
For the purposes of ensuring that adequate time is made available for the promotion of the objectives set out in this section, the Central Government shall have the power to determine the maximum limit of broadcast time in respect of the advertisement.
The Corporation shall be subject to no civil liability on the ground merely that it failed to comply with any of the provisions of this section The Corporation shall have power to determine and levy fees and other service charges for or in respect of the advertisements and such programmes as may be specified by regulations: Provided that the fees and other service charges levied and collected under this sub-section shall not exceed such limits as may be determined by the Central Government, from time to time.
There shall be constituted a Committee consisting of twenty-two Members of Parliament, of whom fifteen from the House of the People to be elected by the Members thereof and seven from the Council of States to be elected by the Members thereof in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, to oversee that the Corporation discharges its functions in accordance with the provision of this Act and, in particular, the objectives set out in section 12 and submit a report thereon to Parliament.
The committee shall function in accordance with such rules as may be made by the Speaker of the House of the People. Establishment of Broadcasting Council, term of office and removal, etc. There shall be established, by notification, as soon as may be after the appointed day, a Council, to be known as the Broadcasting Council, to receive and consider complaints referred to in section 15 and to advise the Corporation in the discharge of its functions in accordance with the objectives set out in section The Broadcasting Council shall consist of ——- a President and ten other members to be appointed by the President of India from amongst persons of eminence in public life; four Members of Parliament, of whom two from the House of the People to be nominated by the Speaker thereof and two from the Council of States to be nominated by the Chairman thereof.
The President of the Broadcasting Council shall be a whole-time member and every other member shall be a part-time member and the President or the part-time member shall hold office as such for a term of three years from the date on which he enters upon his office. The Broadcasting Council may constitute such number of Regional Councils as it may deem necessary to aid and assist the Council in the discharge of its functions.
The President of the Broadcasting Council shall be entitled to such salary and allowances and shall be subject to such conditions of service in respect of leave, pension if any , provident fund and other matters as may be prescribed. Provided that the salary and allowances and the conditions of service shall not be varied to the disadvantage of the President of the Broadcasting Council after his appointment.
The other members of the Broadcasting Council and the members of the Regional Councils constituted under sub-section 4 shall be entitled to such allowances as may be prescribed. The Broadcasting Council shall receive and consider complaints from— any person or group of persons alleging that a certain programme or broadcast or the functioning of the Corporation in specific cases or in general is not in accordance with the objectives for which the Corporation is established; any person other than officer or employee of the Corporation claiming himself to have been treated unjustly or unfairly in any manner including unwarranted invasion of privacy, misrepresentation, distortion or lack of objectivity in connection with any programme broadcast by the Corporation.
A complaint under sub-section 1 shall be made in such manner and within such period as may be specified by regulations. The Broadcasting Council shall follow such procedure as it thinks fit for he disposal of complaints received by it.
If the complaint is found to be justified either wholly or in part, the Broadcasting Council shall advise the Executive Member to take appropriate action. If the Executive Member is unable to accept the recommendation of the Broadcasting Council, he shall place such recommendation before the Board for its decision thereon. If the Board is also unable to accept the recommendation of the Broadcasting Council, it shall record its reasons therefor and inform the Broadcasting Council accordingly.
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section 5 and 6 , where the Broadcasting Council deems it appropriate, it may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, require the Corporation to broadcast its recommendations with respect to a complaint in such manner as the Council may deem fit.
For the purposes of enabling the Corporation to discharge its functions efficiently under this Act, the Central Government may, after due appropriation made by Parliament by law in this behalf, pay to the Corporation in each financial year, —— the proceeds of the broadcast receiver licence fees, if any, as reduced by the collection charges; and such other sums of money as that Government considers necessary, by way of equity, grant-in-aid or loan.
The Corporation shall have its own Fund and all the receipts of the Corporation including the amounts which stand transferred to the Corporation under section 16 shall be credited to the Fund and all payments by the Corporation shall be made therefrom. Media Ownership Monitor India. This is an automatically generated PDF version of the online resource india. Business Form State.
Legal Form State owned. Business Sectors Radio and Television Broadcasting;. Individual Owner The Government. DD Bharati Missing Data. DD Sports Missing Data. DD Urdu Missing Data. General Information Founding Year Employees Missing Data. The main motive of the Act is to provide freedom to electronic media i. The Prasar Bharati Act provides for the establishment of a Broadcasting Corporation, to be known as Prasar Bharati, and define its composition, functions, and powers.
The Act grants autonomy to All India Radio and to Doordarshan, both of which were previously under government control. By the Prasar Bharati Act, all property, assets, debts, liabilities, payments of money due, as well as all suits and legal proceedings involving Akashvani All India Radio and Doordarshan were transferred to Prasar Bharati. The Act came into existence after decades of post-independence struggle to free broadcasting from the stranglehold of the government.
Both are distinct. The efforts for an autonomous broadcasting corporation can be traced to the post-Emergency B. But the Bill lapsed. Joshi Committee in , with a narrow mandate of evaluating the programming of Doordarshan. Bill borrowed some contents from the previous bill and also added some new changes. Singh Government moved this bill and was passed in Lok Sabha in August This Act extends to the whole of India.
The Act provides for the establishment of a Broadcasting Corporation. The Act defines composition, powers and functions of the corporation. It grants autonomy to the All India Radio and Doordarshan which were previously under the control of the government. Section 3 of the Act deals with the establishment and composition of the corporation. The corporation is a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with the headquarters in New Delhi.
The Prasar Bharati Amendment Act of , amended provisions to ensure that all posts in Akashvani and Doordarshan, barring few exceptions, shall be deemed to have been transferred to the Prasar Bharati from April 1, The amendment act had defined the service conditions of several of the employees in some of the key areas. Consequently, government officers belonging to other services generally come to work in Prasar Bharati on deputation.
The Act specifies General Superintendence, direction and management of affairs of the corporation. Prasar Bharati Board does all such acts and exercises all those powers which may be done by the corporation. The President of India appoints Chairman and other member except for ex-officio members, a nominated member and the elected members. There shall be not less than six meetings every year but three months shall not intervene between one meeting and the next meeting.
The main motive of the corporation is to educate, inform and entertain the public. By conducting and organizing public broadcasting services to people, it has become easy to provide the information to the people in an easy manner.
It also ensures the balanced development of broadcasting on radio and television. Following are the objects, namely;. According to section 13 , it shall consist of twenty-two members of Parliament, out of which fifteen from the House of the People shall be elected by the members and seven from the Council of States shall be elected by the members.
The committee shall function according to the rules made by the speaker of the House of the People. According to the Act, the government has the following powers are:.
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