Union
Information and Broadcasting (I&B)
ministry has appointed Veena Jain as
director general (news) in Doordarshan
(DD).
She succeeds senior Indian Information
Service (IIS) officer Akshay Rout. Along with this appointment Jain will also hold the charge as
Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and
will oversee the ministry’s new media wing and social media cell and report to
the ministry for all purposes.
At present, she is posted as
Additional Director General (ADG) in the News Services Division of All India
Radio (AIR). Earlier, she had served as director of Publications Division of
AIR. Doordarshan DG (news) is one of the most influential positions in the public
broadcaster in India. Both AIR and DD are media wings function under Prasar
Bharati which directly works under the aegis of Union I&B ministry.
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