Slamming the successive governments, National Secular Forum(NSF) reiterated its demand for installation of Satellite Dugger Channel in Doordarshan Jammu to largely cater to the requirements of Artists of Jammu Duggar Pradesh.
While addressing the press conference here today, Dr Sukhdev Singh President NSF, said that Doordarshan TV Station Jammu has been reduced to the level of relay channel having no provision for recording various programs of artists fraternity. He disclosed that till year 2014, Doordarshan Kendra Jammu had been getting Rs. 3.50 crores annual budget for programmes and now the financial allocation of this TV Centre has gone from bad to worse making the position of Artists miserable directly hitting the promotion and development of Dogri Culture and its language.He further said that Kashmir region has been provided its own Satellite Kashir Channel besides an independent Doordarshan Kendra since long exclusively meant to promote Kashmiri art, culture and languages, which is good enough. He, however, pointed out that no similar facility of Duggar Satellite Channel by Parsar Bharti on the analogy of Kashmir Division has been provided in Jammu Division to help promote artists here and project Dogra Culture through the mediam of independent Duggar Satellite TV Channel in Jammu.Dr sukhdev said that installation of Satellite Dugger Channel in Jammu Division will also help counter the sinister propaganda of neighbouring country beside giving fillip to multifarious culture of Dogra land in Jammu so far suffered great discrimination at the hands of previous governments in Jammu and Kashmir and at the Centre.On behalf of the Artists fraternity of Jammu Division, he strongly reiterated the demand for installation of independent Satellite Dugger TV Channel in Jammu with the provision of suitable budgetary allocation to run the programmes. Adding further he also demanded that independent Station Director may be posted in Doordarshan Kendra Jammu to run the station in a befitting manner as there is no one officer of that level to listen and redress the grievances of Artists fraternity in Jammu.
