The move to start an All India Radio website and app comes in the backdrop of PM Modi's Independence Day speech in which he had brought up the issue of Pakistani atrocities on people of Balochistan and PoK. Public Broadcaster Prasar Bharati will launch a website and mobile app on Friday for All India Radio's Balochi service to reach out to the people who speak the language across the globe. According to officials, the Balochi website and mobile app will be launched by Prasar Bharati Chairperson A Surya Prakash. As part of its efforts to find additional platforms to supplement its existing shortwave transmissions for various language services, External Services Division of All India Radio (AIR) is launching a multimedia website and mobile app for the Balochi language service being broadcast since May, 1974, an official said. The External Services Division (ESD) of AIR, at present, broadcasts daily in 57 radio transmissions covering over 108 countries in 27 languages.

Source: dna September 15, 2016 16:30 UTC