Question : SUGGESTION OF SHUNU SEN COMMITTEE

(a) whether Shunu Sen Committee has suggested that officers belonging to outside cadres like Central Secretariat Service/Central Secretariat Stenographer Services and Indian Information Service be removed from Prasar Bharati Corporation;

(b) if so, whether the Government have decided to post the employees belonging to the original cadres of AIR/DD in place of the officers belonging to other cadres by removing them from Prasar Bharati; and

(c) if so, the details in this regard and if not the reasons for continuing the appointment/posting of the employees belonging to other cadres in the Corporation?

THE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING (SMT. SUSHMA SWARAJ)


(a): No, Sir. The Shunu Sen Committee has recommended that the practice of deputations from the Government to Prasar Bharati should be stopped, and that any Government employee selected to Prasar Bharati should be required to resign from Government Service within a maximum period of six months after joining.

(b) & (c ): Do not arise.