Prasar Bharati to overhaul transmitters on Indo-Nepal border, Jammu & Kashmir: Report
CEO Gaurav Dwivedi said that efforts will be made to further strengthen AIR and DD under the Broadcast Infrastructure Network Development (BIND) scheme
Public broadcasting agency Prasar Bharati will upgrade its transmitters, especially the "weak" ones along the Indo-Nepal border, and Jammu and Kashmir said a report quoting its top executive Gaurav Dwivedi.
He said that efforts will be made to strengthen All India Radio and Doordarshan under the Broadcast Infrastructure Network (BIND) scheme, which has an outlay of Rs 2,539.61 crore for the upgrade and expansion of broadcasting infrastructure till 2025-2026.
The report says that Prasar Bharati will recruit more engineers and technicians and also rope in in-house and outside professionals to run the upgraded infrastructures.
Dwivedi also added that areas on the border and further are prioritised for the overhaul. Apart from 100W transmitters, FM transmitters of 10 KW and higher capacities are being installed to improve the coverage by more than 600,000 sq km.
More than 80,000 free DD DTH receiver sets will be distributed as a plan to expand Prasar Bharati's reach in the extremism-affected border areas, strategic locations and aspirational districts, said the report.
The broadcaster will also onboard more correspondents to galvanise news reporting in the areas. The report says that there have been many vacancies for the posts of Europe, Africa and US correspondents.
