Parliamentary committee on IT, headed by Shri visits Doordarshan Kendra Thiruvananthapuram

The purpose of the visit was ' to understand the challenges and problems faced in this region, what are the achievements of Doordarshan as well as all India Radio, how they can improve their functioning, how they can play the larger role of public broadcaster to reach out to every nook and corner of the country ', Shri Anurag Singh Thakur later told Doordarshan. He observed that,as public broadcasters, DD and AIR have to play a very important role, especially in regional languages. The committee will prepare a detailed report after getting replies from the department to the queries raised. This visit 'gives an opportunity to meet the local staff and various people and to understand the problems faced by the government employees and employees of prasar bharati and to try to solve them through various means...' the Chairman added

Source : Sojan Joseph& Subramonian Iyer