law: Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990
  11.Transfer of service of existing employees
  
  to Corporation
  1) Where the Central Government has ceased to perform any
  
  functions which under Section 12 are the functions of the Corporation, it shall
  
  be lawful for the Central Government to transfer, by order and with effect from
  
  such date or dates as may be specified in the order, to the Corporation any of
  
  the officers or other employees serving in the Akashvani or Doordarshan and
  
  engaged in the performance of those functions:
  
  Provided that no order under this sub-section shall be made in relation
  
  to any officer or other employee in the Akashvani or Doordarshan who has, in
  
  respect of the proposal of the Central Government to transfer such officer or
  
  other employee to the Corporation, intimated within such time may be specified
  
  in this behalf by the Central Government, his intention of not becoming an
  
  employee of the Corporation.
  
  
  2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall also apply to the members of the
  
  Indian Information Service, the Central Secretariat Service or any other
  
  service or to persons borne on cadres outside Akashvani and Doordarshan who
  
  have been n working in Akashvani and Doordarshan immediately before the
  
  appointment day: Provided that where any such member intimates, within the time
  
  specified in sub-section (1), his intention of not becoming an employee of the
  
  Corporation but to continue on deputation, he may be allowed to continue on
  
  deputation in accordance with such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.
  3) In making an order under sub-section (1), the Central
  
  Government shall, as far as may be, take into consideration the functions which
  
  the Akashvani or, as the case may be, Doordarshan has ceased or ceases to
  
  perform and the area in which such functions have been or are performed.
  4) An officer or other employee transferred by an order under
  
  sub-section (1) shall, on and from the date of transfer cease to be an employee
  
  of the Central Government and become an employee of the Corporation may
  
  determine and shall, subject to the provisions of sub-sections (5) and (6), be
  
  governed by such regulations as may be made as respects remuneration and other
  
  conditions of service including pension, leave and provident fund and shall
  
  continue to be an officer or any other employee of the Corporation unless and
  
  until his employment is terminated by the Corporation.
  
  
  5) Every officer or other employee transferred by an order made under
  
  sub-section (1) shall, within six months from the date of transfer , exercise
  
  his option, in writing, to be governed -
  a) by the scale of pay applicable to the post
  
  held by him in the Akashvani or Doordarshan immediately before the date of
  
  transfer or by the scale applicable to the post under the Corporation to which
  
  he is transferred.
  b) by the leave, provident fund, retirement or
  
  other terminal benefits admissible to employees of the Central Government in
  
  accordance with the rules or orders of the Central Government, as amended from
  
  time to time, or the leave, provident fund or other terminal benefits
  
  admissible to the employees of the Corporation under the regulations, and such
  
  option once exercised under this Act shall be final:
  Provided that the option exercised under clause
  
  (a) officer or other employee shall be applicable only in respect of the post
  
  under the Corporation to which such officer or other employee is transferred
  
  and on appointment to a higher post under the Corporation he shall be eligible
  
  only for the scale of pay applicable to such higher post.:
  Provided further that if immediately before the
  
  date of his transfer and such officer or other employee is officiating in a
  
  higher post under the Government either in a leave vacancy or any other vacancy
  
  of a specified duration, his pay on transfer shall be protected for the unexpired
  
  period of such vacancy and thereafter he shall be entitled to the scale of pay
  
  applicable to the post under the Government to which he would have reverted or
  
  to the scale of pay applicable to the post under the Corporation to which he is
  
  transferred, whichever he may opt:
  Provided also that an officer or other employee
  
  serving in the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting or in any of its
  
  attached or subordinate offices subsequent to the transfer to the Corporation
  
  of any other officer or employee senior to him in that Ministry or office
  
  before such transfer, the officer or other employee who is promoted of
  
  officiate in such higher post shall, on transfer to the Corporation, be
  
  entitled only to the scale of pay applicable to the post he would have held but
  
  for such promotion or the scale of pay applicable to the post under Corporation
  
  to which he is transferred, whichever he may opt.
  6) No officer or other employee transferred by an order made
  
  under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), -
  a) shall be dismissed or removed by an
  
  authority subordinate to that competent to make a similar or equivalent
  
  appointment under the Corporation as may be specified in the regulation.
  b) shall be dismissed or removed or reduced in
  
  rank except after an inquiry in which he has been informed of the charges
  
  against him and given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of
  
  those charges:
  
  Provided that where it is proposed after such inquiry to impose upon him any
  
  such penalty, such penalty may be imposed on the basis of evidence adduced
  
  during such inquiry and it shall not be necessary to give such person an
  
  opportunity of making representation on the proposed penalty : Provided further
  
  that clause (b) shall not apply where an officer or other employee is dismissed
  
  or removed or reduced in rank on the ground of conduct which has led to his
  
  conviction on a criminal charge.