Public broadcaster Prasar Bharti has decided to drop references to its radio service as ‘All India Radio’ and substitute it with ‘Akashvani’, as mentioned in the law.
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An internal order issued by Akashvani director general Vasudha Gupta on Wednesday seeks “compliance with immediate effect” to the statutory provision which had replaced the name of AIR (All India Radio) to Akashvani.
“This is a very old decision of the government which was not operationalised earlier. We are now operationalising it,” Gaurav Dwivedi, chief executive officer, Prasar Bharati said.
The Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990, mentions that ‘Akashvani’ means the offices, stations and other establishments, by whatever name called, which, immediately before the appointed day, formed part of or were under the…
