New Delhi, June 19: Kajol is selected by Information and Broadcasting Ministry for part time Prasar Bharati board members of public broadcaster. She is to lead in remodeling of Doordarshan.
Doordarshan, the national level channel is going for a remodeling exercise where Kajol is going to lead the team who’s Dilwale movie is to release on Dec 18. Reports say that the Bollywood star is in the list of seven members from which Prasar Bharati Board will be selecting the new part-time members. Recently, Ministry of Home Affairs has given security clearance for this list which consists of 7 members.
For this board, there must be 6 members, now there are 4 vacancies for which Information and Broadcasting ministry has chosen Kajol, singer Anoop Jalota, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s media advisor Ashok Tandon and journalist Minhaz Merchant as their new part time board members of the public broadcaster.
Now, all these will be sent to a committee that is headed by Vice President Hamid Ansari. The officials also said press that this comprises of Information and Broadcasting Secretary and Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI) who are most important to do things in right manner.
There is a list of seven members now, from these 7 only 4 will be selected to start functioning with the board. The members who are selected have to be persons of eminence in public life. Work period will be for 6 years, where 1/3rd of them can retire after 2 years if they want to be.