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  • AIR News SMS service now available in 14 languages including English

    AIR News SMS service now available in 14 languages including English

    NEW DELHI: Noting that mobile phones acted as a tool of empowerment to all sections of society, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has suggested that All India Radio could consider a customised news and related information to varied sections of the society.

     

    Javadekar said the government has initiated innovative approaches in reaching out to the people through multiple media platforms.

     

    The endeavour was to address the communication needs, to enter into a dialogue with different cross-sections of the society and address the aspirations of young people.

     

    The Minister stated this while launching the free News SMS service of All India Radio News Services Division in four Indian languages – Assamese, Gujarati, Tamil and Malayalam – thus bringing the total number of languages covered by this service to 14.

     

    Javadekar said the SMS services of AIR intended to provide instant communication to public in a language and form understood by them. The service reiterated the richness and reach of each of the languages introduced by AIR.

     

    AIR had launched SMS service in English on 9 September last year and in five other languages on 19 September this year – Hindi, Marathi, Dogri, Sanskrit and Nepali – to provide AIR News on mobile sets to its subscribers free of cost. The service has already touched the database of over three lakh subscribers. 

     

    This newly launched service can be availed by registering on the website of All India Radio viz. http://newsonair.nic.in/smsservice . SMS can also be sent for registration in following format to 7738299899:

     

    AIR<space>NAME<dash>AGE<dash>GENDERCODE<dash>LANGUAGECODE

    Different codes for the SMS are as follows:

    GENDER CODES: M for Male    and    F for Female

     

    LANGUAGE CODES: A for Assamese,  G for Gujarati, ML for Malayalam, T for Tamil, H for Hindi, M for Marathi, D for Dogri, S for Sanskrit, N for Nepali.

     

     

  • Prasar Bharati to beef up DD, AIR news operations with fresh recruitments

    Prasar Bharati to beef up DD, AIR news operations with fresh recruitments

    MUMBAI: Prasar Bharati is strengthening its manpower for news coverage in All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan. Responding to a written query on the subject, minister of information and broadcasting and Parliamentary affairs P R Dasmunsi said in the Lok Sabha that the Prasar Bharati board had approved the proposal to position Part Time Correspondents (PTC) in all those districts of the country where regular AIR correspondents are not posted.

    According to Dasmunsi, there are about 90 full time correspondents/editors and 419 PTCs posted/positioned across the country and the process of selection of PTCs in respect of remaining 150 districts headquarters is underway.

    “With this, Prasar Bharati will have correspondents in all the district headquarters of the country. Doordarshan News has a network of Stringers who, along with the PTCs of AIR, provides news inputs from various districts in the country. Besides, Doordarshan regular TV correspondents/news reporters are also deployed to gather important news from time to time for inclusion in the news bulletins telecast by Doordarshan,” Dasmunsi said.

    Dasmunsi informed that, AIR and Doordarshan tried to cover all important news events across the country with its limited manpower and support. “Some events in far off places which are not covered due to infrastructure and manpower shortages are covered by subscribing to news agencies,” he said.