Exhibition to mark World Radio Day in Jamshedpur on Feb 13  

Jamshedpur, Feb 10: Guide International Club headed by its president Chinmay Mahto decided to celebrate World Radio Day on February 13.

A Radio Exhibition will be organized in Kadma Uliyan.

In an attempt to preserve radio sets for posterity, Chinmay Mahto of Kadma on a strange task fuelled by passion to collect discontinued sets. With nearly 300 radio sets of different eras in his kitty, Mahto is on the lookout for more to expand his collection. A room in his house is dedicated to around 300 radio sets manufactured between 1957 to 2021. It also houses Mini Radio Museum which also includes record player, record cassette and CD.   

Mahto, heads the Guide International Radio Listening Club (GIRLC) that he started with four other radio passionate in 1974. GIRLC still has about 100 members today and regularly meets to discuss radio programmes.

Proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 as an International Day, February 13 became World Radio Day (WRD).

Radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse. At the global level, radio remains the most widely consumed medium. 

In India Radio broadcasting started in the early 1920s and in 1923, the first program was aired by the Radio Club of Bombay. Lord Irwin, then Viceroy of India, inaugurated the Indian Broadcast Company (IBC) in Bombay.