Navin Kumar to be Prasar Bharati CEO

Doordarshan Director-General Navin Kumar is tipped to take over as CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.

By PTI | Jun 30, 2006, 06.00 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Doordarshan Director-General Navin Kumar is tipped to take over as CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.

A 1975-batch Bihar cadre officer takes over from K S Sarma, who demitted office on Friday. Sources said this would be an interim arrangement.

Kumar has been Director-General at DD since February 2004 and will assume the CEO's post on an ad-hoc basis till the appointment of a regular CEO by a three-member committee headed by Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, sources said.

Kumar's deputation at the Centre ends this August.

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