ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONARIES OF
GOVERNMENT RADIO STATION (ALL INDIA RADIO):
The Directorate General, All India Radio functions under Prasar Bharati.
Director General is the Head of the Department and is responsible for the
overall administration and supervision of the entire AIR network. In
performance of his duties and functions, the Director General, AIR is
assisted by officers of the following wings.
PROGRAMME WING
Additional Director Generals (ADGs) at the Headquarters and in the
Regions assist the Director General in proper supervision of the stations.
The Headquarters of the Regional ADGs are situated at Kolkata (Eastern
Region), Mumbai (Western Region-I), Lucknow (Central Region-I), Bhopal
(Central Region-II) and Guwahati (North Eastern Region), Chennai (South
Region-I), Bangalore (South Region-II), Delhi (North Region-I) and
Chandigarh (North Region-II). Another office of ADG is to be set-up at
Ahmedabad (Western Region-II).
ENGINEERING WING
In respect of the technical matters, Director General is assisted by an
Engineer-inChief and ADG (Engineering) at the Headquarters and by the
Zonal Chief Engineers in zones. In addition, there is a Planning and
Development Unit at the Headquarters in respect of the Development
Plan Schemes of All India Radio. For the civil construction activities, the
Director General is assisted by the Civil Construction Wing (CCW) of AIR,
which is headed by a Chief Engineer. The CCW caters to the needs of
Doordarshan also.
ADMINISTRATIVE WING
Additional Director General (Administration) and Additional Director
General (Finance) assist the Director General on all matters of the
administration and finance One Director each looks after the Engineering
Administration, Programme Administration and financial matters.
SECURITY WING
The Director General is assisted by a Deputy Director General (Security),
an Assistant Director General (Security) / Deputy Director (Security) on
the matters relating to the security and safety of AIR installations viz.,
transmitters, studios, offices, etc. The Security requirements of
Doordarshan are also looked after by these officers.
AUDIENCE RESEARCH WING
There is a Director (Audience Research) to assist the Director General in
carrying out feedback studies on the programmes broadcast by the
stations of All India Radio. Director (Audience Research) is assisted by a
Joint Director (Audience Research).
ACTIVITIES OF SUBORDINATE OFFICES OF AIR IN BRIEF
There are a number of subordinate offices of All India Radio performing
the distinct functions.
The broad activities of these offices / divisions are summarised as under:
NEWS SERVICES DIVISION
The News Services Division works round-the-clock and it broadcasts over
607 news bulletins both for Home and External Services. The bulletins are
in Indian languages and various foreign languages. The Division is headed
by the Director General (News). There are 46 Regional News Units in AIR.
The bulletins vary from region to region according to the news worthiness
of national, regional and local affairs.
EXTERNAL SERVICES DIVISION
The External Services Division of All India Radio broadcasts in 27
languages i.e., 15 foreign and 12 Indian languages. These services are
radiated for an aggregate duration of 72 hours daily and are projected to
over 100 countries.
TRANSCRIPTION & PROGRAMME EXCHANGE SERVICE
This service looks after the exchange of programmes among the stations,
building up and maintenance of sound archives and also the commercial
release of prestigious recordings of music maestros.
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
The functions of the Research Department include Research and
Development of equipment required by AIR and Doordarshan,
investigation and studies relating to AIR and Doordarshan, development
of prototype models of R&D equipment for limited use field trials in AIR
and Doordarshan network.
CENTRAL STORE OFFICE
AIR’s Central Store Office, located at New Delhi, performs the functions
relating to procurement, stocking and distribution of the engineering
stores required for the maintenance of technical equipment at All India
Radio Stations.
COMMERCIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE CENTRES & VIVIDH BHARATI
SERVICE (VBS)
There are 41 Vividh Bharati-cum-Commercial Broadcasting Service (CBS)
Centres including the exclusive VB Centres. The work relating to CBS is
performed by two Wings i.e. Sales Wing and Production Wing. An
independent Central Sales Unit along with 15 main Commercial
Broadcasting Service Centres looks after the marketing of broadcast time
in AIR.
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