A Surya Prakash is Prasar Bharati’s new chairperson
30 Oct 2014 5:25 AM IST
Senior journalist A Surya Prakash was on Tuesday appointed chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board, filling a post which had been lying vacant for the last six months. The appointment, which will be for three years, was made on the recommendation of a three-member committee headed by vice-president M Hamid Ansari and comprising Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju and I&B Secretary Bimal Julka, information and broadcasting ministry said in a statement.
He will succeed another veteran journalist Mrinal Pande who completed her tenure on 30 April this year. Prasar Bharti Corporation, which was created by a 1990 Act of Parliament, is governed by the Prasar Bharati Board, which comprises a Chairman, an Executive Member (Chief Executive Officer), a Member (Finance), a Member (Personnel), six part-time members, a representative of the ministry of information and broadcasting and the directors general of All India Radio and Doordarshan as ex-officio members. The chairman is a part time member. Prakash is currently Consulting Editor of the Pioneer newspaper and a fellow at Delhi-based Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a think tank with which NSA Ajit Doval was also associated earlier.
He will succeed another veteran journalist Mrinal Pande who completed her tenure on 30 April this year. Prasar Bharti Corporation, which was created by a 1990 Act of Parliament, is governed by the Prasar Bharati Board, which comprises a Chairman, an Executive Member (Chief Executive Officer), a Member (Finance), a Member (Personnel), six part-time members, a representative of the ministry of information and broadcasting and the directors general of All India Radio and Doordarshan as ex-officio members. The chairman is a part time member. Prakash is currently Consulting Editor of the Pioneer newspaper and a fellow at Delhi-based Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a think tank with which NSA Ajit Doval was also associated earlier.
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