The All India Radio constructing in Chennai. File
| Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan
The All India Radio (AIR) Director General has directed all of the departments involved to be certain that the general public broadcaster is referred to as “Akashvani” in accordance with the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990, which got here into power on November 15, 1997.
Section 2(a) of the Act says that “Akashvani” means all of the places of work, stations and different institutions that are or had been beneath the Director-General All India Radio of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry.
“The statutory provision which has replaced the name of AIR to the ‘Akashvani’ may be brought to the notice of all so that names and titles get in tune with the provisions of the Prasar Bharati Act…,” mentioned the order.
According to the Prasar Bharati web site, broadcasting in India began about 13 years earlier than the AIR got here into existence. “In June 1923, the Radio Club of Bombay made the first ever broadcast in the country, which was followed by the setting up of the Calcutta Radio Club about five months later. The Indian Broadcasting Company (IBC) was instituted on July 23, 1927, but faced liquidation in just about three years.
In April 1930, the Indian Broadcasting Service, under the Department of Industries and Labour, started functioning on an experimental basis. In September 1935, a private radio station named Akashvani Mysore was set up.
“On June 8, 1936, the Indian State Broadcasting Service became All India Radio. The Central News Organisation came into existence in August, 1937. In the same year, AIR came under the Department of Communications and four years later came under the Department of Information and Broadcasting…In 1956, the name Akashvani was adopted for the national broadcaster…,” mentioned the web site.
