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Uday Kumar Varma appointed as BCCC member
Uday Kumar Varma appointed as BCCC member- Details, Career Profile
Former Information and Broadcasting Secretary, Uday Kumar Varma has been appointed as a member of the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC), a self-regulatory body for general entertainment channels.
Uday Kumar Varma replaces former information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, whose tenure at the BCCC has ended.
Uday Kumar Varma is a former IAS officer of 1976 batch from the Madhya Pradesh cadre. He was a member of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) till recently and during his tenure as the I&B secretary, he spearheaded the nationwide digitisation programme.
The 13-member BCCC council, chaired by former Supreme Court judge Justice Vikramajit Sen, has actor Sharmila Tagore, theatre person Arundhati Nag and JNU professor Ira Bhaskar as some of its members, besides representatives of the National Commission for Women, National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights and the National Commission for Minorities, among others.
