MUMBAI: Production staff of pubcaster Prasar Bharti have threatened to halt work across the country from 13 November if the government did not allow promotion of programme executives to the production cadre.

The associations are up in arms against the ministry's "foot dragging" over an order issued in March by the Central Administrative Tribunal to undertake a Department Promotion Committee (DPC) review and consider programme executives for promotion to production posts.

"The immediate cause for this agitation is the attempt by the (information & broadcasting) ministry to thwart and delay this review (by the DPC) which is required to be completed by November 12," the Press Trust of India quoted a number of staff associations within Prasar Bharati as stating.