BBC Hindi will survive funding cuts: Patten
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BBC Hindi will survive funding cuts: Patten
Terming the BBC Hindi Service as "very important", Lord Chris Patten, chairman
of the BBC
Trust and chancellor of the University of Oxford, today said the service will
survive the major
funding cuts that had severely affected its future.
Patten, who recently took over as chairman of the BBC Trust, told PTI here that
due to the
importance of the Hindi Service and increasingly deeper relations India, he was
making all
efforts to ensure its survival amidst funding cuts.
"We will ensure that an alternate funding model will be in place to ensure its
future beyond
March 2012. The Hindi Service will resume broadcast bulletins in the morning
and evenings,"
Patten, who opened the first Oxford-India Day here, said.
He added: "We have been able to mitigate the damage caused to the service (by
the recent
funding cuts)".
As part of the cuts announced in January, the BBC Hindi Service was to close in
March, but
after much criticism in India and here, it was given a year''s reprieve (until
March 2012) to
explore an alternate model of funding to ensure its continued functioning.
According to Patten, the Hindi service was at "the core of what the BBC is
doing", and said
he would discuss future funding of the Hindi Service with Foreign Secretary
William Hague.
In its latest report, the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee said the
proposed closure of
the Hindi Service was a matter of "deep concern", and recommended that the BBC
World
Service should "commit itself to longer-term support for an unreduced BBC Hindi
shortwave
service".
It said: "We note that India is a major rising economic power and that the
Government has
professed its wish to improve bilateral relations as a priority. We further
note that the
estimated savings from reducing World Service operations in India, at 680,000
pounds, are
small in relation to the nearly 11 million listeners that will be lost."
Responding to the committee's findings on the Hindi Service, the Foreign Office
responded:
"The BBC World Service told us that they made a decision to cease short wave
broadcast in
view of a falling short wave audience, and their broader decision to move away
from short
wave transmission".
The response added: "We were not formally consulted on this decision and we
believe that
the case they advanced for closure was not compelling.
We welcome the World Service's decision to identify savings from within its
budgets to give
the service the chance to explore a new operating model. We very much hope that
the
reprieve will continue, either through a new model of funding, or from the BBC
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