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dated August 31, 1954: Expansion of broadcasting

Three border States - the Punjab, the Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) and Himachal Pradesh - got a powerful 50 KW medium wave transmitter on August 29 at Jullundur under the Five-Year Plan for the development of broadcasting in India. The Chief Minister of the Punjab, Mr. Bhimsen Sachar, performed the opening ceremony in the presence of PEPSU's Chief Minister, Col. Raghbir Singh, and the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Dr. Y.S. Parmar. The Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr. B.V. Keskar, who presided, said that, on completion of AIR's First Five-Year Plan, people in most parts of the country would be able to listen to radio programmes with ordinary medium-wave sets. In addition to the six transmitters of this category erected or which were being erected at Calcutta, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Jullundur, Lucknow and Bangalore, it was proposed to have 20 KW medium-wave transmitters at Indore, Jaipur, Ajmer, Delhi, Patna, Vijayawada, Madras and in the Malayalam-speaking area. There would also be a 10 KW medium-wave transmitter at Cuttack and 10 KW short-wave transmitter at Gauhati. Over and above these, two high-power short-wave transmitters of 100 KW would be erected at Bombay and Madras to serve the double purpose of internal broadcasts.

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