Hundreds of employees of Prasar Bharati across the country are at the receiving end as their Confidential Report ( CR) forms for the last eight years  have mysteriously disappeared from various offices working  under  Directorate Generals of  All India Radio and Doordarshan..

              Such a serious negligence, involving highly confidential documents,  now rechristened as Annual Appraisal Reports( APRs),  had occurred for the first time in any Central Government office of India.

             The aggrieved employees, whose number runs over 2,000, belong to Programme  and Engineering wings and are presently working  at different AIR and Doordarshan Kendras in various   states of India. In the absence of   mysterious disappearance of their  CR forms since 2002, the employees for no fault of theirs,  have now  been denied promotions and other benefits under newly launched Modified Assured Career Progression (  MACP) scheme.

            Well placed sources in the office of Directorate  Generals of AIR and DD  at New Delhi  said this `` grave’’ issue initially came to light in the  month  of May  when  senior officers of AIR wanted to consult old CR forms  so as to   grant the benefit of  MACP scheme to promotion- starved Prasar Bharati  employees, as has been done in case of other central government employees across the country under the orders of DOPT.  However, to their utter surprise and anguish, the CR forms of over 593 Transmission Executives and  126 Programme Executives   were missing from S-1(B)  and S-VII sections alone, the sources said. Both these administrative wings had  also not cared to update their records since 2000, the sources said.

             They said when the matter came to the notice of some higher ups, an `` internal enquiry’’ was launched wherein it was further  found that CR forms of scores of  technical   staff like Engineering Assistants were also missing from other wings, stations and offices of AIR,  which included   the office of Deputy Directorate General NR-I &II. This section looks after sensitive AIR and DD stations and installations  located in  Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Union Territory of New Delhi.

                 The sources said in a bid to save skin  for their highly  ``callous attitude and administrative mismanagement’’, some erring  Administrative employees  clandestinely asked a number of Doordarshan and AIR Station heads to immediately prepare and compile  duplicate and  ``hurriedly written  CR forms’’ . A   notification under number 1/8/2009, S-VII, dated 05-05-2010, issued in the name  of Deputy Director (Admn) was  immediately issued, wherein  all stations of AIR and Doordarshan were asked to locate the `` missing CRs’’  A list of such employees whose CRs stand mysteriously  misplaced or were untraced during the past one decade, was also put on departmental website, the sources said.

             They said CEO Prasar Bharati and some members of Prasar Bharati Board have taken a serious note of this ``gross negligence’’ and directed  DGs  of both AIR and DD to  immediately  sort out the issue by fixing  the responsibility and punish the guilty.