The government today said that all employees of Prasar Bharati working in All India Radio and Doordarshan and recruited on or before October 5, 2007 shall be considered as central government employees on deemed deputation.
Therefore, such employees will be able to enjoy all facilities availed by the central government employees.
This move is significance because Prasar Bharati is an autonomous body that came into effect after enforcement of the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990.
Therefore, all government employees working for this autonomous body were not treated as government servants due to confusion on their 'employement status'. This in turn led to agitations by all such Prasar
Bharati employees.
A Group of Ministers (GoM) then looked into the matter and based on its recommendations, the Cabinet gave its approval on the status and benefits of Prasar Bharati employee on Wednesday night.
This move is likely to help about 30,000 employees working in AIR and Doordarshan an access to government accomodation, central government health services, and admission of their wards to Kendriya Vidyalayas among other entitled benefits.
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However, such employees will not be entitled to any deputation allowance, the government said in a statement today post Cabinet meeting on Wednesday night.
The statement also said that all existing vaccant governemnt posts effective October 6, 2007 will be transferred to Prasar Bharati and all persons recruited against such posts or who joined the autonomous body later shall become employees of Prasar Bharati. All such employees (about 3,000) will be subjected to the employment rules as approved by the Prasar Bharati Board, it said.