CEO PRASAR BHARATI SHASHI SHEKHAR VEMPATI GIVEN ADDL. CHARGE OF RAJYA SABHA TV CEO

New Delhi ,August 14,2017: Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati has been given the additional charge of Rajya Sabha TV CEO after Gurdeep Singh Sappal resigned from his post on Saturday. “Today, as I stand relieved from the posts of CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Rajya Sabha Television, I thank Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice President of India, for accepting my request of relieving me from the responsibility,” Sappal posted on Facebook. In his note, Sappal expressed satisfaction over his work as the Editor-in-chief of the channel. “Having nurtured it since its conception, developing a free and fair public broadcaster was indeed a difficult task,” Sappal wrote. “There was a certain belief that ‘if the past cannot be blackmailed, the present doesn’t scare and there are no expectations from the future, then it is possible to build robust institutions,” he added.

Prasar Bharati Chairman A Surya Prakash congratulated Vempati for the new role.