AIR Jagdalpur Celebrates its 44th Anniversary on 22.01.2021.


All India Radio, Jagdalpur celebrates its 44th Anniversary on 22''d of January,2021. The Station was inaugurated on 22.O1.L977.lnitially the power of the transmitter was 20 KW which was upgraded by BEL HMB-104 100 KW during L997. Now this Transmitter has been replaced by Nautei NX100 100 kW Digital Ready Transmitter and is in working since December,201.7. The station was duly inaugurated by the then Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Late Shri Shyamacharan Shukla. The Chief Guest of the occasion was Late Shri Sanjay Gandhi and was presided over by the then Minister for Information and Broadcasting Late Shri Vidya Charan Shukla.The station broadcasts mainly in Hindi and in some of the local dialects and covering the entire Bastar Division consisting of 7 distrists. 

This station has been adjudged as "Best Maintained Station" for the years of 1989, 1998, 2OOO and 2O16.

Presently the station is headed by Shri Balbir Singh Katchh, PEX(Prog. Head) and Shri S.S.Chaggar, AE is the Engineering Head.

Contributed by: S.S.Chaggar, Assistant Engineer ,AIR, Jagdalpur



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