Registration for
the free AIR News on SMS service of the News Services Division (NSD) of All
India Radio (AIR) has crossed six lakh. The SMS service in English was launched
on 9th September, 2013 and the database reached to about 3 lakhs by
August, 2014. NSD started sending news headlines through SMS in nine more
languages in September and October, 2014 and testing for six more languages is
almost complete.
In September
2014, the free News SMS service was extended to Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Dogri
and Nepali. Within a short span of a month, nearly one lakh people registered
for the Service. Four more regional languages namely Gujarati, Tamil,
Malayalam, and Assamese were added to the SMS service in October, 2014.
In this service, NSD has been providing national/international
news headlines through SMS in 16 languages namely Gujarati, Assamese, Tamil,
Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Dogri, Sanskrit, Nepali, English, Bengali, Odia,
Urdu, Punjabi, Arunachali and Kashmiri. As a next step, NSD is planning to
expand the service to its Regional News Units (RNUs) for giving local news in
regional languages on SMS.
One can register
for the service either by sending an SMS in the format AIR
<space><language code> to 7738299899 or by filling up online form
at www.newsonair.nic.in/smsservice.
Courtesy: pib.nic.in
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