Sonowal for Dibrugarh Doordarshan, All India Radio stations

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has moved the Union information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar over Prasar Bharati’s directives for reassigning All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan Kendra (DDK) in Dibrugarh as relay centres only.

The move will curtail their capacity to produce their own programmes and would only broadcast or telecast AIR and DDK, Guwahati’s programmes, his letter to Javadekar said.

Sonowal urged him to retain the present status of both AIR and DD Dibrugarh centres as these places have been instrumental in reflecting the cultural mosaic and indigenous traditions of communities in Upper Assam and even the eastern districts of neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh.