Public Service Broadcasting Day

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Public Service Broadcasting Day was observed on 12 November, 2022.

Important facts

• The day is celebrated every year to commemorate the only visit of Mahatma Gandhi to All India Radio in Delhi in 1947.

• The Father of the Nation addressed the displaced people who had temporarily settled in Kurukshetra in Haryana after Partition.

• Gandhiji had said that he saw the medium of radio as a miraculous power of God.

• A special programme is being organised in the premises of All India Radio, New Delhi to mark the occasion.

• In the year 2001, this day was officially declared as Public Service Broadcasting Day.