Public Service Broadcasting Day – 2017 (Jan Prasaran Divas)

12 November – the day Gandhiji made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio is commemorated as Public Service Broadcasting Day. On this day in 1947 Gandhiji addressed more than 2 lakh refugees at the Kurukshetra Camp from Broadcasting House, New Delhi. Gandhiji held no public office or position in Government and it was truly a public service broadcast 

 

Gandhi - King Memorial Plaza & CD Deshmukh Auditorium

 

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. at Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza

Commemoration Choirs from Schools of Delhi NCR

Followed by discussion from 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at CD Deshmukh Auditorium 

Usha Mehta's tryst with freedom: Reliving the moments with Rita Mukerjee, 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 Voices of the Powerless

Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker 

 

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar and Gandhi Yuva Biradari)