World Radio Day is being observed today

World Radio Day (WRD) is being celebrated across the Globe today. The day was proclaimed by the member states of UNESCO in 2011 and subsequently adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2021 as an International Day.

According to UNESCO, radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse.

One of the most widely consumed medium at the global level, radio has the ability to reach out to the widest audience, in the process having the ability to shape a society's experience of diversity and providing a platform for everyone to be represented and



heard.

According to UNESCO, On the occasion of World Radio Day 2021 (WRD 2021), UNESCO calls on radio stations to celebrate this event’s 10th anniversary and the more than 110 years of radio.

The theme of World Radio Day 2021, "New World, New Radio", will highlight the services rendered by the radio medium throughout the crisis.

 

Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has extended his greetings to all on the occasion of World Radio Day. In a tweet, Mr Javadekar said, the expansion of radio is continuously increasing.