Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 30: Minister of State in the PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Dr Jitendra Singh has managed to fulfill the major demand of the Jammuites by getting Yuva Vani services of All India Radio restored.
The AIR had discontinued Yuva Vani service on June 1 on a decision taken by the previous UPA Government. The decision to stop Yuva Vani service had exclusively been reported by the Excelsior after which Dr Singh took up the issue with Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge) Prakash Javadekar seeking restoration of the service.
Javadekar today rang up Jitendra Singh, who was at Sriharikota today in connection with launch of satellite PSLV-C23 and informed him that he has issued orders to restore the Yuva Vani service.
Javadekar told Dr Singh, an MP from Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat, that technical reasons cited for stopping Yuva Vani service have been overcome.
“The Yuva Vani will now be relayed from a different frequency i.e. instead of AM frequency it will not be relayed from FM frequency, which will make the radio signals more clear,” Javadekar said.
Hailing Javadekar for his prompt response to the demand for restoration of Yuva Vani service, Dr Singh said the service is a major outlet for youth in terms of encouraging the young talent in broadcasting and art as well as in providing an outlet for grievance of the young ones to be aired on radio network.
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