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A.K. Chanda Committee.

During Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s tenure as the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting

, the A.K. Chanda Committee was appointed in 1964 which submitted its report in 1966, which was tabled in Parliament only in 1970. It recommended the liberation of Radio and TV from rigid government control by converting them into separate corporations. It took another six years to separate ‘Door darshan’ from ‘Akashwani’ to create Akashwani and Door darshan in 1976, though both function under the same administrative and financial procedures with common engineering and programmed staff cadres.

✓Recommendations

~ The broadcasting corporation board should be established by an act of parliament.
~ Separation of AIR(Radio) and TV with two independent corporations.
~ It should be a semi-government body.
~ Board of the governor is not more than 7 (1 Chairman+6 members).
~ Members of the board have a maximum six years of tenure.
~ Board will monitor all the content of communication.
~ Programmes based on National interest should be broadcast on priority basis.

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