law: Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990
  3.Establishment and composition of
  
  Corporation-
  1) With effect from such date as the Central Government may by
  
  notification appoint in this behalf, there shall be established for the
  
  purposes of this Act a Corporation, to be known as Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting
  
  Corporation of India).
  2) The Corporation will be a body corporate by the name
  
  aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire,
  
  hold and dispose of property, both moveable and immovable, and to contract, and
  
  shall by the said mane sue or be sued.
  3) The Headquarters of the Corporation shall be at New Delhi and
  
  the corporation may establish offices, kendras or stations at other places in
  
  India and, with the previous approval of the Central Government outside India.
  4) The general superintendence, direction and management of
  
  affairs of the Corporation shall vest in the Prasar Bharati Board which may
  
  exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or
  
  done by the Corporation under this Act.
  5) The Board shall consist of :-
  a) a Chairman;
  b) one Executive Member;
  c) one Member (Finance);
  d) one Member (Personnel);
  e) six Part-time Members;
  f) Director-General (Akashvani), ex officio;
  g) Director-General (Doordarshan), ex officio;
  h) one representative of the Union Ministry of
  
  Information and Broadcasting, to be nominated by that Ministry;
  I) two representatives of the employees of the
  
  Corporation, of whom one shall be elected by the engineering staff from amongst
  
  themselves and one shall be elected by the other employees from amongst
  
  themselves.
  6) The Corporation may appoint such Committees as may be
  
  necessary for the efficient performance, exercise and discharge of its
  
  functions, powers and duties; Provided that all or a majority of the members of
  
  each committee shall be Members and a member of any such committee who is not a
  
  Member shall have only the right to attend meetings of the committee and take
  
  part in the proceedings thereof, but shall not have a right to vote.
  7) The Corporation may associate with itself, in such manner and
  
  for such purposes as may be provided by regulations, any person whose
  
  assistance or advice it may need in complying with any of the provisions of
  
  this Act and a person so associated shall have the right to take part in the
  
  discussions of the Board relevant to the purposes for which he has been
  
  associated, but shall not have the right to vote.
  8) No Act or proceeding of the Board or of any committee
  
  appointed by it under sub-section (6) shall be invalidated merely by reason of
  
  -
  a) any vacancy in, or any defect in the
  
  constitution of, the Board or such committee; or
  b) any defect in the appointed of a person
  
  acting as a Member or a member of such committee; or
  c) any irregularity in the procedure of the
  
  Board or such committee not affecting the merits of the case.