Dr.T.Siddharthan, Head of Office, Commercial Broadcasting Service, All India Radio, and Chennai has retired from service on superannuation on 30th June 2017. He belongs to 1998 batch of UPSC Direct Recruit Programme Executives.
He started his career as a print media journalist in the mid eighties at Chennai and later joined the Secretariat Service of Government of Tamilnadu, before migrating to AIR.He has been a sincere, dedicated worker and held several key positions in All India Radio, Chennai. He has served at AIR, Trichirappalli, Chennai, Coimbatore and Uthagamandalam stations of AIR. He has mastered in interviewing skills and Programme administrative matters.
He earned a Ph.D degree in the year 2010 for his work on the efficacy of Radio broadcast in disseminating certain psychological principles. He has translated a number of books for Sahitya Akademi and National book Trust and other publications from English to Tamil. He authored two books one on Popular Science and the other on Environment. He has presented a paper in the World Classical Tamil Conference held at Coimbatore in the year 2010.
After successful completion of 32 years of Government Service, he has retired as Assistant Director of Programme (Adhoc).
All the Staff of AIR, Chennai and Prasar Bhararti Parivar wish Dr.T.Siddharthan a very peaceful and healthy retirement life.
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