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National Broadcasting Day - 23 July

Inseparable Part of Life
RADIO

Radio has become an easy medium of This is Akashvani...
entertainment, along with news, in the country. On (Important Facts)
23 July 1927, for the first time in the country, the
Indian Broadcasting Company started organized · Akashvani covers 92 percent of the country’s land
radio broadcasting from the Bombay station, area and more than 99 percent of the people.
since then 23 July has been celebrated as National · Akashvani operates 591 stations. It broadcasts in
Broadcasting Day. Radio has not only been a part 23 languages and 146 dialects.
of the life of the common people in India, but it also · Akashvani’s External Service Division
has significance in every era. To connect directly broadcasts in more than 100 countries.
with the countrymen and increase the popularity · The Union Cabinet on August 28, 2024, approved
of radio, PM Modi chose this durable and favorite the launch of 730 channels in 234 new cities
medium for the program ‘Mann Ki Baat’… under the Private FM Radio Phase-3 Policy.

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