Edited sentence: , is funded from the government.Corporates in India come under Companies Act and this Act defines whether you are a public undertaking, whether you are a government company or whether you are a limited liability partnership etc.First, when Prasar Bharati was created in 1997, all the assets of the AIR and Doordarshan were transferred to this corporation, but it is not a corporation in the true sense.In 2019, addressing the gathering at Kautilya Fellows Programme, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati elaborated upon the difference between funding of public broadcasters in other countries and in India, “In India, we have a very different model for two reasons.In India, we ended up doing it because of the unique model we have where operations have to be funded from our revenues.Prasar Bharati doesn’t come under the ambit of the Companies Act.Public funding is only to the extent of salaries of government employees on deputation to DD.Public money does not fund broadcast operational expenditure of DD.Responding to claims of Prasar Bharati being run on public money, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati through a tweet clarified that DD has to earn its money to run its operations.Secondly, when it was created in 1997, all of the employees of DD and AIR continued to remain employees of the Government of India.So if you take away these wages and related expenses, all of the operational expenditure has to be funded by revenue generation from commercial advertising and sponsorship and whatever other commercial activities Prasar Bharati can undertake, which is a huge challenge because nowhere in the world does a public broadcaster sustains itself through advertising.So we have this hybrid model where the corporate is autonomous but everyone working within it are the employees of the government.So, it is not a corporate in true sense, it’s a statutory autonomous body.What this also means is that their salaries, pensions etc