Prasar Bharati 2nd Floor,Floor, PTI Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110110 001 Doordarshan Directorate General, Doordarshan Bhawan, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 111010 001 All India Radio Directorate General, Akashvani Bhawan Parliament Street, New Delhi 110110 001 PRASAR BHARATI ANNUAL REPORT-2010-11 Smt. Mrinal Pande Sh. B.S. Lalli Shri A.K. Jain Shri V. Shivakumar Chairperson CEO Member (Finance) Member (Personnel) Sh. Uday Kumar Varma Sh. Rajiv Takru Sh. Arvind Kumar Dr. George Varghese Special Secretary, MIB Add. Secretary, MIB Joint Secretary, MIB Part-time Member Sh. Muzaffar Ali Dr. Sunil Kapoor Lt. Gen.(Retd), Sh. Suman Dubey Part-time Member Part-time Member Sh. Utpal Bhattacharya Part-time Member Part-time Member Ms. Aruna Sharma Sh. L.D. Mandloi Ms. Noreen Naqvi DG, Doordarshan DG, Doordarshan DG, All India Radio Ex-officio Member Ex-officio Member Ex-officio Member 3 CHAPTER-1 PRASAR BHARATI – THE CORPORATION 05-10 CHAPTER-2 PRASAR BHARATI – PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTER 11-12 CHAPTER-3 THE YEAR AT A GLANCE 13-58 CHAPTER-4 CHANNELS AND PROGRAMMES 59-158 CHAPTER-5 PRASAR BHARATI – FINANCE & ACCOUNT 159-196 PRASAR BHARATI ANNUAL REPORT-2010-11 CHAPTER I PRASAR BHARATI – THE CORPORATION 1.1. Introduction: Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) is India’s Public Service Broadcaster with the largest reach. It is an autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament and comprise Doordarshan (Television network) and All India Radio (Radio Network) which were earlier under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Prasar Bharati was established in 1997 by an act of Parliament with a mandate to organize and conduct public service to inform, educate and entertain the public and to ensure a balanced development of broadcasting in the country. 1.2 Objectives: The major objectives of the Prasar Bharati Corporation as laid out in the Prasar Bharati Act 1990 are as follows: i) To uphold the unity and integrity of the country and the values enshrined in the Constitution. ii) To promote national integration. iii) To safeguard citizen’s rights to be informed on all matters of public interest and presenting a fair and balanced flow of information. iv) To pay special attention to the fields of education and spread of literacy, agriculture, rural development, environment, health and family welfare and science and technology. v) To create awareness about women’s issues and to take special steps to protect the interests of children, aged and other vulnerable sections of the society. vi) To provide adequate coverage to the diverse cultures, sports and games and youth affairs. vi) To promote social justice safe safeguard the rights of working classes, minorities and tribal communities. vii) To promote research and expand broadcasting facilities and development in broadcast technology. The Prasar Bharati Board The Corporation, 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 & Broadcasting and Directors General of All 5 PRASAR BHARATI ANNUAL REPORT-2010-11 India Radio and Doordarshan as ex-officio Members. The chairman is a part time member with three year tenure. The executive Member has tenure of five years, subject to an age limit of sixty five years. The Member (Finance) and the Member (Personnel) are whole time members also with six year tenure, subject to the age limit of 62 years. The Prasar Bharati Board meets at least six times in a year. The Members of the Board :- Chairperson : Smt Mrinal Pande Executive Member (CEO) : Sh. B.S. Lalli (Upto 21.12.2010) Member (Finance) : Sh. A.K. Jain Member (Personnel) : Sh. V.Shiva Kumar Representative of the : Sh. Uday Kumar Verma (Upto 97th meeting on 21.7.2010) Ministry of I&B Special Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting : Sh. Arvind Kumar (In 98th meeting 21.10.2010 only) Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting : Sh. Rajiv Takru, (From 3rd January, 2011 onwards) Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (Also empowered to act as C.E.O) Part-time Members : Dr George Varghese : Dr. Sunil Kapoor : Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Sh. Utpal (Upto 100th meeting on 3.02.2011) Bhattacharya : Sh. Suman Dubey : Sh. Muzaffar Ali Ex-Officio Members : Smt. Aruna Sharma (Upto 100th meeting on 3.02.2011) DG: Doordarshan : Sh. L.D. Mandloi (101st meeting on 16.03.2011 only) DG: Doordarshan : Ms. Noreen Naqvi DG: All India Radio 6 PRASAR BHARATI ANNUAL REPORT-2010-11 Some important informations Prasar Bharati is the largest electronic media network in India and one of the largest in the world. Doordarshan commands the biggest reach among television channel in the country, boasting of around 450 millions viewers. It is the No.1 Channel in the country in terms of absolute viewership. Doordarshan operates 35 satellite channels and has a vast network of 66 studio centres and 1415 Transmitters of varying power providing TV Coverage to about 92% population of the country. DD National, the flagship of Doordarshan is the largest terrestrial network in the world covering about 91.2% population and 79% land area of the country. Doordarshan was the sole telecaster of Commonwealth Games 2010. First time in the Commonwealth Games history, the entire TV coverage of the Games was produced in HDTV format. The number of stations of All India Radio went up from 6 in 1947 to 241 by March, 2011 providing coverage to 99.18% of the population spreading over 91.85% area of the country. It is having 385 transmitters. All India Radio puts out 647 news bulletins daily for a total duration of nearly 56 hours in about 90 languages/ Dialects in Home, Regional, External and DTH Services. Organization Structure The Prasar Bharati Board functions at the apex level ensuring formulation and implementation of the policies of the organization and fulfilment of the mandate in terms of the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990. The Executive Member functions as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Corporation. Officers from different streams working in the Prasar Bharati Secretariat assist the CEO, Members (Finance) and Member (Personnel) in integrating actions, operations, plans and policy implementation as well as look after the budget, accounts and general financial matters of the Corporation. Prasar Bharati Marketing offices located at centres such as Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Jalandhar and Hyderabad look after all marketing activities of both All India Radio and Doordarshan. Prasar Bharati also has a unified vigilance set up at the headquarters, headed by a Chief Vigilance Officer. The Director General heads the Directorate General of All India Radio and the Directorate General of Doordarshan. 7 PRASAR BHARATI ANNUAL REPORT-2010-11 ALL INDIA RADIO Director General, All India Radio is responsible for the overall administration of the entire Akashvani network consisting of 241 stations and 385 broadcast transmitters of which 149 are MW (Medium Wave), 182 FM (Frequency Modulation) and 54 SW (Short Wave) transmitters as on 1.04.2011, which provide coverage to 99% of the population spread over 91% area of the country. In the performance of the duties of the Director General, the following officers assist: PROGRAMME WING The Director General is assisted by Deputy Directors General in the Headquarters and Deputy Directors General in the regions for a better supervision of the stations. The Headquarters of the Regional DDGs are situated at Bhubaneshwar (ER-I),Kolkata (ER-II), Mumbai (WR-I,WR-II), Lucknow (CR-I), Bhopal (CR-II) and Guwahati (NER-I),Aizwal (NER-II), Chennai (SR-I), Bangalore (SR-II),Chandigarh (NR- I), Delhi (NR-II). ENGINEERING WING In respect of technical matters of All India Radio, The Director General is assisted by the Engineer-in- Chief and Chief Engineers posted in the headquarters and the Zonal Chief Engineers. In addition, there is a Planning and Development Un it in the Headquarters to assist the Director General in respect of Development Plan Schemes of All India Radio. In respect of Civil Construction activities, the Director General is assisted by the Civil Construction Wing, which is headed by a Chief Engineer. CCW also caters to the needs of Doordarshan. ADMINISTRATIVE WING A Dy. Director General (Administration) assists the Director General on all matters of administration while Dy. Director General (Programme) assists DG in administration of Programme personnel. A Director looks after the Engineering Administration of All India Radio, while another Director (Admin. & Finance) assists DG in matters of administration and finance. SECURITY WING The Director General is assisted by a Deputy Director General (Security), Asstt. Director General (Security) and a Dy. Director (Security) on matters connected with the security and safety of AIR installations, transmitters, studios, offices etc. The Security needs of Doordarshan are also looked after by these officers. AUDIENCE RESEARCH WING There is a Director, Audience Research to assist the Director General in carrying out surveys of audience research on the programmes broadcast by various stations of All India Radio. 8 PRASAR BHARATI ANNUAL REPORT-2010-11 Activities of Sub-ordinate Offices of AIR in Brief There are number of subordinate offices of All India Radio performing distinct functions. Broad activities, in brief, are given below: NEWS SERVICES DIVISION News Services Division works round the clock and broadcasts over 647 news bulletins both in the home and external services. The bulletins are in Indian and Foreign languages. It is headed by Director General, News Service. There are 44 regional News Units. The bulletins vary from region to region according to news interest. EXTERNAL SERVICES DIVISION The External Services Division of All India Radio broadcasts in 27 languages – 16 foreign and 11 Indian languages. These services are radiated for an aggregate duration of 72 hours daily and are projected to over 100 countries.