Indian journalist filed report from a flooded disaster area sitting on another man's shoulders and gets fired. Next time stay in the water, bros.

The journalist who outraged India when he sat on a flood victim's soldiers to film a televised report from a disaster zone has been fired from his job.

Nishant Chaturvedi, channel head at News Express, said reporter Narayan Pargaien was 'inhuman' for sitting on the man while reporting from inundated Uttarakhand state.

'You cannot ride on someone's back for a story. We terminated him on Tuesday,' said Mr Chaturvedi.

The network boss told Australia's Herald Sun that the channel had chosen not to broadcast the 'highly distasteful' clip and was trying to find out how it was leaked.

'He sent the clip to us. We were shocked to see him sitting on the poor man. You have to be a part of the people and not ride on them,' he said.

The reporter, Mr Pargaien, had been reporting on devastating flash floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhan when he decided to film the unorthodox report.

In an interview Mr Pargaien admitted that he was wrong to file the unorthodox report, but said that he only sat on the man's shoulders after the victim had invited him to do so.

He also blamed his cameraman for revealing the bizarre arrangement, claiming that he had been told he would only be filmed from the waist up.

'It wasn't my idea to begin with, but there was this man who took me to his home and asked me to report the damage he had suffered,' Mr Pargaien told News Laundry.

'His house was in a miserable condition and he had lost a lot in the flood, and was left with very little food and water.

'We helped him with some food and some money and he was grateful to us and wanted to show me some respect, as it was the first time someone of my level had visited his house.'

The reporter added that he had paid the man, whom he refused to name, 50 rupees (55p) for his troubles.

He admitted that his actions were 'journalistically wrong', adding that he had 'no problem getting my feet wet'.

But Mr Pargaien appeared keen to pass blame on to his cameraman for allowing the footage to come to light, saying the report was supposed to be shown 'only with footage of me chest-up'.

He continued: 'This was entirely the cameraman’s fault, who, it seems, almost tried to sabotage my career by shooting from that distance and angle and releasing the video mocking this whole incident, and making me the villain.

Yea, blame it on the cameraman. Cool. But he still has his job.