DD-6 viewers rue ‘loopholes’ in Bhawanipatna

The Pioneer, 31st July, 2009

Bikash Khemka Bhawanipatna

The viewers of Doordarshan’s DD-6 Oriya channel have raised several questions over a programme recently telecast by the local Doordarshan centre of Bhawanipatna. The Central Government is investing huge amount of funds for crucial programmes like Krushi Darshan and Bharat Nirman Yojana but the importance of the programmes and its role is being sidelined by the Centre’s lackadaisical officials by repeating the programmes which have already been telecast, they alleged.Reports allege that one such old programme was aired by the local station here on June 25 at 5.30 pm which had been already aired in the past. The station telecast an interview recently in the Bharat Nirman Yojana programme where Narla BDO Nihar Ranjan Das was interviewed in the half-an-hour programme, even when Das had been transferred one-and-half years ago.Similarly, another programme was aired by the Bhawanipatna station on July 23, where one suspended EO of Bhawanipatna Municipality, who is in vigilance net now, was interviewed in a regular Thursday programme on Rajiv Gandhi Urban Renewal Scheme.Doordarshan director Rabindra Nath Mishra, who remains out of station for 15 to 20 days a month, told The Pioneer that the programme had not been aired by the Bhawanipatna station where he has repeated the cassette and confirmed us. According to sources, the programme, which is aired by the Bhawanipatna station at 5.30 pm, is telecast from the local station of Doordarshan Kendra every Thursday.Viewers have now raised their eyebrows as many people of the undivided KBK districts watch this programme regularly. A proper inquiry would reveal numerous loopholes in the Bhawanipatna centre, they said.