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Navin Kumar to be Prasar Bharati CEO

June 30, 2006 18:32 IST
Doordarshan director-general Navin Kumar is tipped to take over as CEO of public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.

A 1975-batch Bihar cadre officer, he takes over from K S Sarma, who demitted office today. 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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