12 November 2013, 05:30 am
Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day
Programme Type
Cultural

COMMEMORATION ?GANDHI-KING PLAZA & AUDITORIUM FROM 10:00 ONWARDS
Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day
Commemorating the day in 1947 when Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi

From 10:30 to 11:15 in Gandhi-King Plaza
Commemoration

From 11:30 to 13:00 in the Auditorium

Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom
Quit India Movement and the Underground Radio Transmitter in Bombay, Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Radio Transmitter confiscated

Discussion on: Social Contract, Public Service Broadcasting and Transforming India
Lead presentation: Shri Suhas Borker

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