With the theme “Radio for Everyone! Everywhere! Every time!” Radio Sagor Giri FM 99.2 (A link organization of YPSA) and Bangladesh Betar, Chittagong jointly organized rally and discussion meeting to mark the World Radio Day 2013 in Chittagong on 13 February. The rally was led by Ms. Sayada Shammi Akhter, regional director, Bangladesh Betar, Mr. Munir Hossain, Sub-regional Director, Bangladesh Betar and Shah Sultan Shamim, Station Manager, Radio Sagor Giri. Sagor Giri also organized rally and discussion meeting at Sitakund on the same day.
World Radio Day is one of the United Nations observance days as proposed by UNESCO and endorsed by the 67th UN General Assembly to be marked on the 13 February every year.
World Radio Day is a day to celebrate radio as a medium; to improve international cooperation between broadcasters; and to encourage major networks and community radio alike to promote access to information and freedom of expression over the airwaves.
As radio continues to evolve in the digital age, it remains the medium that reaches the widest audience worldwide. This multi-purpose medium can help people, including youth, to engage in discussions on topics that affect them. It can save lives during natural or human-made disasters; and it provides journalists with a platform to report facts and tell their stories.
Radio has to be recognized as a low cost medium, specifically suited to reach remote communities and vulnerable people: the illiterate, the disabled, women, youth and the poor, while offering a platform to intervene in the public debate, irrespective of people’s educational level. Furthermore, radio has a strong and specific role in emergency communication and disaster relief.
