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Guwahati AIR news broadcaster completes non-stop 100 days news bulletin reading

| @indiablooms | Jul 01, 2020, at 06:57 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: During the COVID-19 pandemic situation, a news reader of All India Radio in Guwahati station has created history by completing non-stop 100 days of his duty hours without any break or off from his duty.

He attended his morning as well as evening duty period for reading special extended Assamese (local language from RNU – Guwahati) news bulletin.

Priyabrat Hazarika – a new reader of All India Radio in Guwahati station- shown great responsibility to his work, which had pulled a lot of applause from listeners across the state even at this hour of perennial flood and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pritabrat Hazarika is continuously reading new bulletins at Guwahati AIR station since Mar 24, when the people of Assam followed the Janata Curfew along with the rest of the country following Prime Minister’s initiative to fight COVID-19.

It may be mentioned that radio bulletin both from the national and state plays a pivotal role for over 50 percent of the state’s population where maximum listens to AIR, and also during flood prone areas where masses do not reach with TV or other means of print media, but it to be well proved how voice from a particular newsreader who had rendered an immense experiences at the national capital to share his experiences in recent past.

Priyabrat Hazarika – a noted social activist in the field of building the society working for child rights, wildlife and for caring elders across the state.

 

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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