Public Service Broadcasting Day – 2015 (Jan Prasaran Divas)

12 November - the day Gandhi ji made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio is commemorated as Public Service Broadcasting Day. On this day in 1947 he addressed refugees at the Kurukshetra Camp from Broadcasting House, New Delhi. Gandhi ji held no public office or position in Government and it was truly a public service broadcast by All India Radio that carried the Mahatma's message of love and fortitude to the suffering refugees 

 

Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza

Followed by

Discussion in C.D.  Deshmukh Auditorium from 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom: Rita Mukherjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio  Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay

Discussion on: Public Service Broadcasting and the Constitution of India – Idea and Ideology
 

Lead Presentation by Suhas Borker 

Broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists and media persons to participate. Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of PSB