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All India Radio (AIR) Headquarters in Dehli, India. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: The Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has decided to close down All India Radio’s national channel and its regional training academies in five cities as part of “cost-cutting measures” and to “rationalise” services.<\/p>\n

The programme, technical, ministerial and other staff posted at the national channel in Todapur and Nagpur, etc., apart from those working at the Regional Academies of Broadcasting and Multimedia (RABMs) in five cities, may be posted as per the requirement of the organisation, said the order issued by the Directorate General, All India Radio (AIR).<\/p>\n

In order to “rationalise AIR services and keeping in view of the cost-cutting measures”, it has been decided by Prasar Bharati and communicated to DG AIR on December 24, 2018, to close down the national channel of AIR and RABMs located at Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Shillong and Thiruvananthapuram with immediate effect, it said.<\/p>\n

The order, dated January 3, stated that the programmes of archival value maintained by the national channel should be sent to the central archives in Delhi for digitisation and preservation for posterity.<\/p>\n

The national channel, which broadcasts from 6pm to 6am, started airing in 1987 and played an important role in keeping people abreast of national issues, an AIR source said.<\/p>\n

“National channel has a huge repository of programmes and the personnel will now be redeployed,” the source said.<\/p>\n

It is understood that certain sections within AIR are not happy with the decision as they believe the national channel was an important part of the broadcasts and there were other ways to cut costs than shutting it down altogether.<\/p>\n

“These days you can livestream, you can make it an application-based service, there are many other ways of cost cutting. The effort should have been to strengthen the national channel and not close it down,” a source said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read at The Telegraph.<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, shares an image of the letter (mentioned above) which was originally posted by\u00a0Jawahar, on the Gary Cohen Facebook page:<\/p>\n

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