<p class="title">Senior journalist A Surya Prakash receives a second consecutive term as the chairman of Prasar Bharati.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The President (Ram Nath Kovind) on recommendation of the selection committee is pleased to appoint A Surya Prakash as the Chairman of Prasar Bharati Board with effect from the date of his assuming charge of the post for a term upto February 8, 2020, the date he attains the age of 70 years," said the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's notification.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three-member selection committee was head by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and had The Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Justice (retd) C K Prasad and the I&B Ministry secretary N K Sinha as its members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The cornerstone of my engagement with Prasar Bharati does not change at all; at best it gets reinforced. My core pre-occupation will remain professionalising Prasar Bharati, creating content which is in sync with the New India vision, and digitisation. Yet, never losing sight of the core agenda of a public service broadcaster," a news agency quoted Prakash as saying on his re-appointment. Prakash, a distinguished fellow at a Delhi-based think tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), was first appointed as the Prasar Bharati chairman for a term of three years in October 2014 soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance came to power at the Centre recording a thumping victory in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before coming at the helm of affairs at the Prasar Bharati, he held various key positions in several print and electronic media organizations during his stint as a journalist.</p>
<p class="title">Senior journalist A Surya Prakash receives a second consecutive term as the chairman of Prasar Bharati.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The President (Ram Nath Kovind) on recommendation of the selection committee is pleased to appoint A Surya Prakash as the Chairman of Prasar Bharati Board with effect from the date of his assuming charge of the post for a term upto February 8, 2020, the date he attains the age of 70 years," said the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's notification.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three-member selection committee was head by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and had The Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Justice (retd) C K Prasad and the I&B Ministry secretary N K Sinha as its members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The cornerstone of my engagement with Prasar Bharati does not change at all; at best it gets reinforced. My core pre-occupation will remain professionalising Prasar Bharati, creating content which is in sync with the New India vision, and digitisation. Yet, never losing sight of the core agenda of a public service broadcaster," a news agency quoted Prakash as saying on his re-appointment. Prakash, a distinguished fellow at a Delhi-based think tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), was first appointed as the Prasar Bharati chairman for a term of three years in October 2014 soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance came to power at the Centre recording a thumping victory in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before coming at the helm of affairs at the Prasar Bharati, he held various key positions in several print and electronic media organizations during his stint as a journalist.</p>
