India, April 15 -- The BBC is set to cut 2,000 jobs in one of the biggest downsizing, for the first time in 15 years ahead of the arrival of its new director-general Matt Brittin.

The cut is set of affect around 10 per cent of the total 21,500 employees in the UK, according to a report in The Guardian. The BBC has, however, not officially announced the planned job cuts.

The senior staff were informed of the cuts during a meeting on Wednesday, while interim director general Rhodri Talfan Davies expected to announce the redundancies.

Meanwhile, the BBC staff are expected to be told that about one in 10 could lose their jobs at an all-staff meeting on Wednesday afternoon, the Financial Times reported.

The latest round of job cuts is the ...