Lok Sabha Question No. 64 (STARRED), answered on 2019-02-07
Subject: All India Radio
Ministry: INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING
Asked by: PRASUN BANERJEE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 64 (TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2019)

## ALL INDIA RADIO *64. SHRI PRASUN BANERJEE

Will the Minister of INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  reasons  for  not  convening  the  regular  Departmental  Promotion  Committee (DPC)  for Programme Executives of the All India Radio (AIR) for the last twenty years;
- (b) the details of action taken/ being taken  by the Government about the officers who are forced to retire as ad- hoc because of this tardiness;
- (c) whether the  Supreme Court had ordered a DPC to be convened in this regard and if so, the details thereof and the action proposed to be taken in this regard;
- (d) whether a DPC for Programme Executive of AIR was convened in August, 2018 and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the status of the list prepared by the Committee and sent to the Ministry?

## ANSWER

THE  MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING [COL RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE (Retd.)]

- (a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  to  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *64 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2019 ON 'ALL INDIA RADIO'.

(a)  and  (b):  Departmental  Promotion  Committees  (DPCs)  could  not  be  constituted  in time in some cases due to litigation and also due to non-acceptance of proposals for promotion  in  respect  of  Prasar  Bharati  (PB)  employees  by  Union  Public  Service Commission  (UPSC)  on  account  of  amendment  to  Prasar  Bharati  (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990. The Ministry of I&B made all possible efforts for getting the DPCs convened in the Programme Cadre both in Group 'A' & Group 'B' including the following:-

- i) Review  DPCs  for  promotion  of  Programme  Executives  (PEXs)  to  Junior  Time Scale (JTS) of Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service [IB(P)S] for the years 1990-91 to 1992-93 were convened by UPSC in August, 2016.
2. ii)  DPCs for regular promotion of PEXs to JTS of [IB(P)S] have been convened upto the vacancy year 2018.
3. iii)  In  respect  of  promotion  to  Programme  Executive  level  (Group  'B ' ),  DPC  was held in the year 2016 for the vacancies upto 2016..

As per guidelines of the DOP&T laid down in OM No.  22011/5/86-Estt.(D) dated 10th April 1989- para 6.4.4 'promotions will have only prospective effect even in cases where the vacancies relate to earlier year (s)', regular promotions would be effective for the date of assumption of charge of the said post.

(c):  The  Hon'ble  Supreme  Court,  in  its  order  dated  30.07.1999  in  SLP  No.  21747  of 1997, had directed to review the DPC already held for regular promotion for the vacancy years 1990-91 to 1992-93 and the same was held in August/September, 2000.

The  DPCs  for  regular  promotion  for  the  years  1993-94  onwards  have  been convened in pursuance of directions of Hon'ble CAT, Principal Bench, New Delhi dated 04.11.2015  in  CP  No.  39/2004  in  OA  No.  242/2002.  Accordingly,  DPCs  for  regular promotion of PEX to JTS for the vacancy years 1993-94 to December, 2018 have been convened.

(d)  & (e): DPC for regular promotion of PEX to JTS of IB(P)S, for the vacancy  years 1993-94  to  1999-2000  was  convened  in  the  UPSC  on  28-29 th August,  2018  and promotion orders were issued on 14.09.2018.

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