Kajol to be a part-time board member at Prasar Bharati

NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Kajol is all set to join the Prasar Bharati board as a part-time member with a committee headed by Vice President Hamid Ansari choosing her for the position from a list of eminent names.

Sources told PTI that a meeting of the three-member committee headed by the Vice President and including Press Council of India chief C K Prasad as well as I&B secretary Sunil Arora had met today to decide on nominees for two vacant positions of part time members on the Prasar Bharati Board.


Hamid Ansari (Image: AP)

Apart from Kajol, the committee has nominated Shashi Shekhar Vempati, who has over a decade-and-half long experience of working with Infosys and heads an online media company, the sources said.

Kajol (Image: AFP)
"The names of actor Kajol and Vempati have been chosen by the committee for the Prasar Bharati board and orders will soon be issued as per the due process," a source said.

As per the Prasar Bharati Act, the public broadcaster should have six part-time members on its Board, which is headed by its chairman. Two of these positions had been vacant.

The I&B ministry had earlier forwarded around 7-8 names from which the committee made the selection.