Meeting of Expert Committee on Prasar Bharati at Doordarshan Mumbai

The Conference room at Doordarshan Mumbai

Pritish Nandy & Shekhar kapur

Sam Pitroda and CEO Jawahar Sircar

The Government of India has set up an Expert Committee under the chairpersonship of Mr Sam Pitroda to review the functioning of Prasar Bharati. 

Sharmila Tagore Dr Gairola, Shekhar Kapoor & ADG Mukesh Sharma

The committee’s terms of reference include sustaining, strengthening and amplification of Prasar Bharati’s role as a public broadcaster, with a special reference to its relationship with Government, in the emerging context; a review of the status of implementation of recommendations made by various committees that have undertaken the study of Prasar Bharati, and suggesting a road map for enhancing Prasar Bharati's reach and potential; digitization of the archival material in the possession of Doordarshan and All India Radio, including material from the Independence Movement era, and the development of enabling infrastructure; use of new media to deliver digital content; ensuring a wider reach to a worldwide audience; and any other statutory issue.

Shabana Azmi & Pranjal sharma

 The committee has decided to study all relevant areas related to Prasar Bharati, viz., the Prasar Bharati-Government relationship, technology, business development, finance, HR & organisation, content & programming, archiving, presence on social and other new & emerging media platforms, global initiatives, regulatory mechanism, and comparison with other public service broadcasters.

Shabana Azmi ,Jawahar Sircar, Mukesh Sharma & Shekhar Kapur

Vikram Kaushik & Brig. Vam Hussein

  The Expert Committee met at Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai  on 1st April 2013.  Sharmila Tagore & Shabana Azmi, were special invitees. 

Nandita Das & sharmila Tagore

Others presented were...

Mr Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations - Chairman

Mrs. Asha Swarup, IAS(Retd) and former Secretary to the Govt. of India - Member

Dr B.k Gairola, Mission Director (e-Governance) - Member

Mr Shekhar Kapur, Member of the National Innovation Council - Member.

Prof M P Gupta, IIT Delhi - Member

Additional Secretary and nominated member on Prasar Bharati Board.

Vikram Kaushik, Business Strategist & Brand Advisor and Part-time Member on Prasar Bharati Board, 

Jawahar Sircar ,Chief Executive, Prasar Bharati - Member (Convener)                                               

                                                                

Sharmila Tagore, Sam Pitroda & CEO Prasar Bharti Jawahar Sircar in lighter vein...

Rajkumar Hirani Visits Doordarshan Mumbai Studios..

Rajkumar Hirani the Director of Munna Bhai... Series at DD Mumbai

On 10th April 2013 DDK Mumbai had an unusual visitor..Unusual in the sense that look wise, he was down to earth, status wise a celebrity..who created the everlasting Munnabhai character for all of us.

Impressed with DD's infrastructure...

Rajkumar Hirani spent some time visiting the DD Studios at worli. He was impressed with the huge infrastructure and had nostalgia of the bygone era of DD when Nukkad, Yeh jo hai Zindagi, Mahabharat etc were created and telecat by the pubcaster. 

The celebrity walk around DD studios in Mumbai

He still had faith in public service broadcasting and expected DD to continue to play an important role in Nation Building..