PRASAR BHARATI Chairman Navneet Kumar Sehgal resigned from the post on Wednesday, just over a year-and-half after being appointed for a three-year term.

A retired Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer, Sehgal had been appointed as the chairman of the public broadcaster on March 16, 2024. He had retired as Additional Chief Secretary for Sports and Youth Welfare in Uttar Pradesh in 2023.

Referring to his notice sent on Tuesday, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting wrote to Sehgal on Wednesday saying that the competent authority had accepted his resignation. “Accordingly, you are hereby relieved from the services of Prasar Bharati with immediate effect,” the ministry wrote.

Sehgal, a 1988-batch IAS officer, had served as Chairman and CEO of the UP Expressway Industrial Development Author

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