Prasar Bharati is India’s public broadcaster. Its radio services will no longer be referred to as All India Radio (AIR), but will be referred to as ‘Akashvani’. This decision taken by the Government long back was not operational earlier, but is being operationalised now. The Prasar Bharati Act or Broadcasting Corporation of India Act, 1990 refers to Akashvani. The Act came into force in 1997. There should be compliance with the name change with immediate effect. Rabindranath Tagore while inaugurating Calcutta shortwave services in 1939 wrote a poem where AIR was referred to as Akashvani. Akashvani Mysore, a private radio station was set up in 1935.