Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that under no circumstances broadcast of programmes from Gorakhpur Aakashwani would be disrupted and announced that soon a permanent transmitter of adequate capacity would be installed there.

Taking a serious note of information that the medium wave mobile transmitter of Gorakhpur Aakashwani had shut down, the chief minister directed officials of the Prasar Bharati to take immediate action to restore the transmission.

After this the broadcast, which was disrupted since November 21, was restarted.

The chief minister said the interest of the employees and artistes would be protected at all costs.

He said that the medium wave mobile transmitter would soon be replaced by a better one. 

“When I was an MP I had always advocated expansion of both Doordarshan and Aakashwani. As Nepal is our neighbouring country, we are able to educate our neighbours with our viewpoints and can make them aware of the nefarious designs of China,” he said.

Taking a dig at the opposition parties doing politics on this issue, the chief minister said that these parties were frustrated because of the government’s development programmes and therefore they were spreading lies.

Owing to certain technical constraints, the 10 kW capacity medium wave mobile transmitter of AIR Gorakhpur was closed down on November 21. 

The chief minister asked the officials of the Prasar Bharati to take necessary steps and restore the broadcast.

Programme head of All India Radio, Gorakhpur, Dr Neerja Madhav, has expressed gratitude to Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the local people’s representatives for the smooth running of the programmes.