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Doordarshan is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati.It is one of India’s largest broadcasting organisations in terms of studio and transmitter infrastructure, having been established on 15 September 1959. It also broadcasts on digital terrestrial transmitters. DD provides television, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional India, as well as overseas, through the satellite network.

About Doordarshan

 

Doordarshan – literally, a glimpse of all afar- is the face of and a witness to India’s metamorphosis to a global leader in digital communications.

Interestingly, the illusory cyber paths that crisscross homes and streets and represent the voice a billion-plus Indians today, actually began with a modest experiment in public service telecasting on September 15, 1959. The makeshift studio and its players beamed their voice and visuals through a small transmitter, daring to dream of becoming the prime vehicle of development of a nation that had shrugged off its yoke of slavery just over a decade earlier.

The experiment became a service in 1965, when Doordarshan began beaming signals to reach television sets in living rooms in and around the country’s capital, New Delhi. By 1972, services were extended to Mumbai and Amritsar and then on, to seven other cities by 1975. All this time, it was part of the national broadcaster, All India Radio. On April 1, 1976, it transited to become a separate Department in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, though still serviced by All India Radio, especially for its news.

Since then, the organisation has grown to cover the length and breadth of the country, painstakingly caring for the interest of all linguistic, geographical and cultural groups and promoting social, cultural and educational development of the country though an array of transmitter networks equipped with studios and facilities to produce programmes even in regional languages.

In doing so, the country’s prime television service provider has also become the engine for celebration of its diversity and the iteration of its unity. It has been able to do so because it has no single market to pamper – because it is the harbinger of news and information services to every geographical community, all occupational group and each assemble of interests.

At Doordarshan, engineering blends with creativity to make it a role model as a matrix of genres evolve from a spread of centers, an array of transmissions and hundreds of studios. This fusion of modern digital engineering hardware and the software of a three tier programme service spreads nationally, regionally and even locally.

Over the decades, the results of this melt of engineering and creativity have captivated million who would be glued to television sets to watch anything from news to cricket match telecasts, exhibitions of art, culture and Bollywood to education on the arts and sciences alike, from catering to a vast farming community to catalysing the growth of industry and commerce.

Over the years Doordarshan has grown into a network operating 34 satellite channels besides providing free-to-air DTH service having 104 in its bookings. Indeed, that single studio from its small departmental home in All India Radio has grown into 66 studio centers all over the country, including 17 major studio centers at State capitals and 49 other studio centers located in various cities.

LIST OF OFFICERS IN DG DOORDARSHAN AS ON 01-08-2023
Name Designation Landline No (O) E-mail ID/Twitter
Director General 23118801 / 23118802 dgdd@prasarbharati.gov.in
E-in-C AIR & DD 23118813 encdd@doordarshan.gov.in
Shri Mukesh Kumar ADG(Admn.) 23118810 mukesh.kmr65@gov.in
Shri Shashi Kant ADG(HR) 23118812 shashikant@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Rajesh Jain ADG[E] HQs 23097540 rajesh.jain@prasarbharati.gov.in
Smt Kanchan Prasad ADG(P) 23114599 kp.mandlaus@gov.in / adgpdoordarshan@gmail.com
Ms. Rakhi Vimal CVO 23114504 cvopb@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri. A. K.Jha DDG[E] (Platforms/DD Free Dish 23114622 ak.jha@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Mukesh Kumar Garhwal DDG(A) HR 23114549 mk.garhwal@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Surender Singh DDG(A) 23114555 surendersingh@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Ashish Potnis DDG(DCS) 23114971
23114972
ddgdcs@prasarbharati.gov.in / ashishpotnis@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri R P Joshi DDG (IT) 23421049 rpjoshi@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri D.P Singh DDG(Content) 23114526 dpsingh@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri. P.P.Shukla DDG [Kashir Channel] 23114618 premprakashshukla@prasarbharati.gov.in
Sh. R.A.Warsi DDG [E] [Transmitter Design]/Maint 23114420 raw@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri. P.S.Srivastava DDG[E] Policy 23114638 pssrivastava@prasarbharati.gov.in
Ms Ruchi Agrawal DDG[E] (HQs) 23114425 ruchi.agarwal@gov.in
Shri R.K.Karn DDG[E] Land Management 23114425 rkkarn@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri R.A.Warsi DDG{E] Maintenace 23114111 raw@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri S.A.Tripathi DDG[E] RTI 23114527 shiveawtar.tripathi@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri S.K.Singh DDG[E] (Coordination) 23114409 sksingh@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri B.K.Oberoi DDG[E] Budget bkoberoi@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Harshit Kumar DDG[E] Finance 23114514 harshitkr.ddn@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri. R.S. Chouhan DDA – A&G 9013515375 rschouhan@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Sanjeev Kumar Jindal DDA – HRIS 23114109 skjindal@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Sanjeev Verma DDA – Legal 23114169 sanjeevverma@prasarbharati.gov.in
Shri Ashesh Kumar DDA – S IV 23114345 ashesh.kumar@nic.in
Shri Anil Kumar Khurana DDA – IFD 23114110 anilkumar.ddnews@prasarbharati.gov.in
Hindi Section 23114914 adol_dd@rediffmail.com

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