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(vi) No recruitment rules were framed by Prasar Bharati and the appointment of employees continued in similar manner.

C. Third Phase:

(i) Prasar Bharati instead of appointing artists itself, engaged the services of Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL) as the recruitment agency. BECIL continued the recruitment from 2003 to 2012 (@page 42).
(ii) From page 107 to 122 of the OA, documents exist by which it is shown that fixation of salary and qualifications were notified by Doordarshan.

Requisition for appointment of employees was forwarded by Doordarshan to BECIL and thereafter, appointment letters were issued by BECIL. These appointments were initially made for one year and thereafter extended from time to time.

(iii) These appointments were also on the sanctioned vacant posts. Any of the Applicants who fulfilled the qualifications prescribed by Doordarshan after undergoing the process of selection were appointed through BECIL. Even at this juncture no recruitment rules existed, upto 2012 and Prasar Bharati continued appointment of employees through BECIL.

D. Fourth Phase:

(i) With effect from 01.11.2012 the services of BECIL were discontinued by Doordarshan and policy to engage employees on contractual basis was commenced from the year 2012.
(ii) The Contractual Policy dated 5.10 2012 applied to the appointments against the sanctioned vacancies (@ pages 127-149). The Artists appointed under this policy were subjected to skill evaluations and their services was Item No.35/ C-4 OA No. 1025/2018 extended from time to time (the relevant documents for this phase are at pages 123-178).