Kerala:  All India Radio, DD staff in protest shutting down of terrestrial services
Kerala: All India Radio, DD staff in protest shutting down of terrestrial services
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Thiruvananthapuram: Employees of All India Radio and under the banner of Association of Akashvani and Doordarshan Engineering Employees (AADEE), are conducting protests against the shutting down of terrestrial services.  The AIR and DD employees association said that it would stage protest marches across the country against the shutting down of services.

AADEE's Kerala State Organising Secretary, Anil Kumar Puthenpurayil, shared before media that "AIR and Doordarshan are national public service broadcasters and function under Section 12 of the Prasar Bharati Act. Both the organisations were never constituted as profit-making entities either by the honourable Parliament or by the successive governments."  The AADEE alleged that Prasar Bharati is trying to close down the terrestrial services of both Doordarshan and All India Radio citing that they are not making profits. It added that Prasar Bharati has issued orders on September 13 to shut down 412 Doordarshan transmitters in the country, including 11 in Kerala. The union leaders said that if the order is executed, it would lead to only Thiruvananthapuram centre of Doordarshan functioning.

He said that the union leaders led by him have already met Congress leader and Wayanad MP, Rahul Gandhi, state Congress President, K. Sudhakaran, BJP state chief, K. Surendran, and other senior leaders cutting across party lines.

 

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