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Broadcast seasoned Ramamurthy Sreedher, who resides successful Coimbatore, has won the Padma Shri for 2026 for his services successful assemblage vigor successful India. Known arsenic the ‘Father of Community Radio successful India’, Mr. Sreedher moved into Coimbatore successful 2021.
“I americium elated by the honour. I americium blessed that vigor is recognised successful today’s Artificial Intelligence-world. I judge that vigor has a relation to play, but it should germinate itself into ‘visual radio’, which is practised successful countries specified arsenic the U.S. Radio should not stay stuck successful aged age. Radio volition decidedly prevention information and wealth for the consumers. I americium adjacent much blessed to assistance with the ocular vigor vision,” said Mr. Sreedher, who presently lives successful a status assemblage adjacent Perur successful Coimbatore.
Born successful Tambaram, Mr. Sreedher, arsenic the Head of the Department of Media Sciences astatine Anna University successful Chennai, acceptable up the Anna Community Radio successful 2004, which is regarded arsenic the archetypal assemblage vigor successful India. He besides worked successful Indira Gandhi National Open University and has implicit 5 decades of acquisition successful vigor and tv broadcasting, of which 35 years was successful Delhi. He was associated with All India Radio, Doordarshan, Gyan Vani and Gyan Darshan to sanction a few. Aged 78, Mr. Sreedher continues to beryllium driven by assemblage radio, bringing innovation to accommodate it to the modern age.
