Watch | Is Prasar Bharati Overlooking Urdu Language?

Name: Watch | Is Prasar Bharati Overlooking Urdu Language? - The Wire
Uploaded: 2022-01-15T09:38:35+05:30
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Description: Before COVID-19, there were 10 news bulletin broadcasts in Urdu on both DD News and AIR. Now, the number has been reduced to less than half.

Before COVID-19, there were 10 news bulletin broadcasts in Urdu on both DD News and AIR. Now, the number has been reduced to less than half.

Mukul Singh Chauhan

Before COVID-19, there were 10 news bulletin broadcasts in Urdu on both DD News and AIR. Now, the number has been reduced to less than half.

watch is prasar bharati overlooking urdu language

Due to the reduction in the number of Urdu news bulletins on DD News and All India Radio (AIR) since the pandemic, viewers and listeners of Urdu news have requested Prasar Bharti to restore these bulletins in the same form as their English and Hindi counterparts.

Before COVID-19, there were 10 news bulletin broadcasts in Urdu on both DD News and AIR. In 2020, during the first wave of the pandemic, the number of bulletins on all desks – Hindi, English and Urdu – were reduced following COVID-19 protocol. However, later, the programmes of all languages except Urdu were restored.

Only two news bulletins of Urdu have been broadcasted on DD News and three bulletins on AIR.

This article went live on January fifteenth, two thousand twenty two, at thirty-eight minutes past nine in the morning.

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