| Quraishi would be move on, with a promotion as additional
secretary, from DD to the steel ministry. The new posting order is
likely to reach Quraishi on Monday, 1 September - which may as well
be his last day with the national broadcaster.
The development was confirmed by both the I&B ministry officials
and Quraishi himself.
"I have had a great stay at DD and would like to thank the
media for being fair to me, even though I've had some heated exchanges
with journalists on the performance of DD," Quraishi told indiantelevision.com
today evening in a parting message.
However, it is not immediately known who would succeed Quraishi,
a full-fledged DG for Doordarshan after many years of ad-hocism.
As per a temporary arrangement, additional secretary (broadcasting)
in the I&B ministry, Vijay Singh, may be given additional charge
of DD as its DG --- a route that former bureaucrat and Star India
CEO, R. Basu, took to the corporate world from government service.
However, sources close to Singh say that the bureaucrat is not
keen of taking on additional responsibility of DD as its DG, though
he is a member on the board of Prasar Bharati, the autonomous body
that oversees the functioning of DD and All India Radio.
Another option could be to give the charge of DD DG to Prasar Bharati
CEO KS Sarma. He is also reported to be unwilling to shoulder this
additional burden as he also doubles up as the DG of AIR at present.
However, Prasar Bharati, still surviving on grant-in-aid from the
government, has formally started an official hunt for a person to
be DG, AIR.
Though officials are mum on the exit of Quraishi from DD, it is
said that I&B minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was not happy with
him, especially over the issue of re-launch of DD News channel that
is slated to be back on air early November, if not on 2 October,
which also happens to be the birth anniversary of the 'Father of
the Nation', Mahatma Gandhi.
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