Who Remembers Doordarshan Manual ?

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            AIR & Doordarshan besides regular transmission is also responsible for promotion of regional and local talents in all spheres of arts. This was one of the major functions of Public Service Broadcasting . This is as enshrined in the five volume Manual which none of the bureaucrats know of it even! It was based on these edicts that all programming and its administration used to be devised. The present dispensation of bureaucrats so engrossed in approval of Tenders, selection of Feature films, Commissioned serials and self glorification have not fathomed that television is much beyond these mundane exercises they were wasting their energies on. Or perhaps the lure for lucre, as being generally alleged, is the only guiding spirit than any other thing....!!

           Sports coverage are in shambles. No major sports are visible or covered on Doordarshan anymore. Fault not at the execution level but the management which has utterly failed to bag rights for prime events. They have lost interest in doing things themselves and fill the organization with pride. Gone are the times when Doordarshan would contend for International Hockey events, BCCI matches, Davis Cup et el and there would be business queries and viewers making beeline to witness events. Nor the Rural sports which it was mandated to have promoted find any place in its schedules.

         Even the promotion to budding talents in commentaries and anchoring has been relegated as an obsolete exercise. Incidentally, it still encourages one sports commentator of very average levels who otherwise would never go beyond a regional Badminton or Kabaddi match earlier just because he happens to be a Member of Prasar Bharati Board ? Not only this, the number of engagements and payments made if are accounted for, would this be termed as misuse of position?
 

          Certainly it could be but when so much has happened without an eyebrow being  raised would anything be done here! More than this, a senior officer in Shastri Bhawan quipped, while A Raja could not be disturbed because of coalition understanding, what understanding they have with B S Lalli, CEO and Aruna Sharma, DG that tons of muck created by them, has been ignored ?

 

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