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It may have passed as a routine news report, but it’s extraordinary that after almost two decades of privatisation, FM radio in the country will get to broadcast news. It’s even more extraordinary that it will get to broadcast only All India Radio (AIR) news without any alteration. This is not an overnight decision, nor is it an arbitrary call taken by the Narendra Modi government.
It was under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee that a full-blown FM radio privatisation policy was formulated and 108 FM frequencies across India went under the hammer. Between 1993, till when AIR was the
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