Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, on Wednesday, will launch the free News SMS service of All India Radio (AIR) in four more languages- Assamese, Gujarati, Tamil and Malayalam.
All India Radio is already providing free News SMS services in English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Dogri and Nepali.
The SMS service is aimed at providing important news to the subscribers in their preferred language on their mobile phones.
Earlier on September 19, AIR had launched SMS service in Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Dogri and Nepali, to provide AIR News on mobile sets to its subscribers free of cost.