Prime Minister Narendra Modi will just about inaugurate 91 FM transmitters of 100 Watt today (April 28) which can give a boost to radio connectivity within the nation. “The government has been committed to enhancing FM connectivity in the country. The 91 new 100 Watt FM transmitters have been installed in 84 districts across 18 States and 2 Union Territories,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
A particular focus of this growth has been on enhancing protection in Aspirational Districts and in border areas, the discharge reads.
“The States and UTs covered include Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Ladakh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands,” PMO said.
The PMO additional added “With this expansion of AIR’s FM service, an additional 2 crore people, who did not have access to the medium, will now be covered. It will result in an expansion of coverage in about 35,000 sq km area.”
Prime Minister has firmly believed in radio’s vital function in reaching out to the lots. To harness the distinctive energy of the medium to attain out to the widest attainable viewers, Prime Minister began the Mann ki Baat programme, which is now nearing its landmark a centesimal episode, the discharge said.
(With ANI inputs)
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