India’s remote areas, rural areas and far flung hamlets remains connected to the rest of the country through their radio sets or transistors. They remain in touch with news and information. The people do not feel isolated. Where there is no TV, telephone or mobile services, the radio is the only hope.
The people listen to current affairs, discussions, educative talks, news, songs, dramas, lectures, weather forecast, addresses to the nation by the president or prime minister, devotional music etc. on their radio sets. It help’s them keep abreast of the times by ears. The people in remote areas spend most of their spare time glued to the radio sets. Some even carry their transistors in fields, on bullock carts or while cycling away.
Today the radio sets are very cheap and transistors are so handy that they have caught the fancy of everyone men, women and children. This friendly chatty gadget has proved bonanza to millions, both the manufacturers and the users. Broadcasts over radio have benefitted students, teachers, panchayat people, farmers, fishermen and soldiers stationed in forward posts. Most of the developing countries including India are using radio broadcasts for long distance education and weather warnings. The radio has enabled the farmers to grow three or four crops a year by listening to Kisan broadcasts. They have better crops and cattle since various problems related to them are discussed in broadcasts providing useful tips on remedial measures.
The rural folk through broadcasts learn about improved seeds, manures, fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation systems and implements for water and energy conservation. Largely accurate advance weather forecasts have proved a boon to the people engaged in agriculture.
City people, who are prisoners of multiplexes, cable TV and internet can not even imagine how the humble radio-set is revolutionising the countryside.
Questions
1. How do people in remote areas keep themselves informed of the latest news?
2. Which radio network broadcasts programmes for the farmers?
3. Which sections of people benefit most from the radio broadcasts?
4. Through broadcasts what do farmers learn about?
5. What the developing countries are using broadcasts for?
Answers
1. The people in the remote areas hear news on their radio or transistor sets.
2. All India Radio broadcasts programmes of the interests of the farmers.
3. Students, fishermen, farmers and soldiers benefit most from the broadcasts.
4. The broadcasts inform farmers about weather forecasts, manuers, improved seeds, fertilizers, useful agricultural implements, crops, pesticides and solutions to crop and cattle or sheep related problems.
5. The developing countries like India are using radio broadcasts for long distance education.
Fill in the blanks
1. The radio broadcasts do not let the people of villages feel………………..
2. The people of remote areas spend most of their spare time in remaining glued…………………..
3. Urbanites know little about the……………role radio broadcasts are playing in…………….and……………. areas in transforming them.
Fillers—1. isolated. 2. to their radio sets 3. revolutionary—rural—remote.
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