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Mangalore , March 17

THE Chairman of the Prasar Bharati Corporation, Mr M.V. Kamath, has said that All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) will depict positive aspects of the country to the globe.

Inaugurating a colloquium on "Rediscovering radio in India" organised by the Manipal Institute of Communication (MIC) at Manipal on Tuesday evening, he said, " We want to present shining India to the world". Media should focus on employment-generating informative programmes and rural health.

Mr Kamath said that thrust would be given on increasing radio coverage in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East. At present, AIR covers 92 per cent of the area in the country with its 229 broadcasting centres.

The Director-General of AIR, Mr Brijeshwar Singh, said that AIR was according priority for the development of the nation. AIR is planning to start a three-minute local news bulletin through its Mangalore Station, after Ugadi. Mr Ramadas Pai, President of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, presided over the function.

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