12 November 2014, 05:30 am
Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day
Programme Type
Cultural
Commemorating the day in 1947 when Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi
Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza
From 11:15 to 12:30 in the Auditorium
Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom
Speaker: 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 Parliamentary Democracy in India
Lead Presentation: 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