"(7) The Corporation shall, as soon as may be, after the appointed day and in such manner and subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed, establish for the purposes of section 9, one or more Recruitment Boards:
Provided that the Union Public Service Commission shall continue to discharge its functions relating to recruitment of officers and employees of the Corporation which was being discharged immediately before the appointed day till the recruitment Board is constituted for such categories of officers and employees of the Corporation.".
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9. In section 11 of the principal Act,—
(a) for sub-section (2) the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:— "(2) the provisions of sub-section (1) shall not apply to any of the officers or employees not borne on the cadres of Akashvani and Doordarshan:
Provided that officers from the Indian Information Service, Central Secretariat Service, Central Secretariat Stenographers' Service, Central Secretariat Clerical Service borne on the cadre of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, equal in number of then- cadre posts borne on the strength of Akashvani and Doordarshan immediately before the appointed day may be absorbed by the Corporation after following such procedure as may be prescribed:
Provided further that the members of Indian Information Service and other services working hi Akashvani and Doordarshan immediately before the appointed day and not borne on the cadres of Akashvani and Doordarshan shall be deemed to be on deputation on such terms and conditions and till such time as may be finalised by the Corporation in consultation with the respective cadre controlling authorities.
(b) in sub-section (5), the third proviso shall be omitted.
Amendment of section
11.
10. hi section 12 of the principal Act,—
(i) for sub-section (7), die following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:— "(i) Subject to the provisions of this Act, it shall be the primary duty of the Corporation to organise and conduct public service broadcasting to inform, educate and entertain the public";
(i«) in sub-section (2), in clause (n), for the words "broadcast frequencies available", the words "broadcasting frequencies made available for public service broadcasting" shall be substituted;
(/'/'/) hi sub-section (3), in clause (c), the words "and to establish procedures for the allocation of such programmes, rights or privileges to the services," shall be omitted;
(iv) for sub-section (5), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:— "(5) In order to achieve its objectives the Corporation may formulate its own programme and advertisement codes, fix such limits on broadcasting of advertisements as considered necessary to ensure that adequate tune is made available for the promotion of the objectives of the Prasar Bharati.
Explanation.—Pot the removal of doubts it is hereby declared that the programme and advertisement codes or limits on broadcasting of advertisement shall be in addition to and not hi derogation of any programme and advertisement codes or limits on broadcasting of advertisements specified by or under any other law for the time being in force.".
(v) hi sub-section (7),—
(a) the word "service" shall be omitted;
Amendment of section
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(b) the proviso shall be omitted.
Ommlssion of sections 13 to 15.
11. Sections 13 to 15 of the principal Act shall be omitted.
Amendment of section