Supriya Sahu
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| Native name | सुप्रिया साहू |
| Born | 27 July 1968 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | University of Lucknow |
| Occupation |
Indian Administrative Service, |
Indian Administrative Service,
Director General, Doordarshan,
Supriya Sahu (Hindi: सुप्रिया साहू) is a senior Indian bureaucrat from 1991 batch of Indian Administrative Service. Recently, she was selected by Prasar Bharati, India's public service broadcaster, to be the Director General of state broadcaster Doordarshan. Currently, Supriya is posted as Director General Doordarshan. This is after almost two years that state broadcaster will get a full-time Director General. Supriya Sahu's appointment as head of Doordarshan was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On 25 October 2016, she was elected as the new vice-president of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.
She is known for her pioneering work in protecting the environment in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. She led a campaign known as 'Operation Blue Mountain', to ban the use of plastic in the district. She has been hailed as a hands-on collector for Operation Blue Mountain in the Nilgiris to cleanse the environment of the plastic menace. The campaign was crucial to unclog the river sources and springs in the popular hill station of Nilgiris. Her experiment with Nilgiris has been documented by erstwhile Planning Commission and UNDP as a best practice on governance from Indian states. As Collector of Nilgiris district, Sahu led a campaign to mark 'Year of the Mountains". This included the creation of a world record by planting trees in one or several of the degraded shola forests. On 24 June 2003, people of Nilgiris under the leadership of Supriya Sahu planted 42,182 trees — breaking the existing Guinness World Record by a large margin.
She has also been credited for giving a shape and direction to India's Community Radio movement. It was under her leadership that Community Radio was included in the 12th Five Year Plan of India.
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