Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

India-People and Economy: Transport and Communcation

Question:

Arrange the given historical developments in radio broadcasting in India in a chronological order.

(A) Akashwani
(B) All India Radio
(C) Radio broadcasting brought under the Indian broadcasting system
(D) Radio broadcasting started

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Options:

(D), (B), (C), (A)

(D), (C), (B), (A)

(D), (A), (B), (C)

(D), (A), (C), (B)

Correct Answer:

(D), (C), (B), (A)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → (D), (C), (B), (A)

Radio broadcasting started in India in 1923 (D) by the Radio Club of Bombay. Since then, it gained immense popularity and changed the sociocultural life of people. Within no time, it made a place in every household of the country. Government took this opportunity and brought this popular mode of communication under its control in 1930 under the Indian Broadcasting System (C). It was changed to All India Radio in 1936 (B) and to Akashwani in 1957 (A).