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The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has restrained Doordarshan Kendra Delhi from transferring specialist programme executives to non programme production related jobs.
The restraining order applicable for a week from 30 May, follows a petition by Satish Vats, a specialist programme executive in music with DD, challenging Prasar Bharati authorities‘ act of putting specialists on the jobs other than the ones for which they were recruited by the Union Public Service Commission.
According to a report in the Free Press Journal newspaper, the tribunal has restrained DDK Delhi director Basharat Ahmed and chief producer BR Puri from executing their order, which would transfer UPSC selected specialist executives to non-programme related jobs in the tranmission cell of DD.
The petition, filed through DD Programme Staff counsel Jog Singh, will come up for hearing on 7 June, the report adds.
