The farmers of the Thanjavur paddy growing belt in Tamil Nadu, named the hybrid variety of paddy they grew after listening about it over transistor radio as "Transistor paddy." With the advent of the transistor, radio receiver sets became cheap and reach of radio was enlarged. In fact, credit for the success of the Green Revolution and the attaining of self-sufficiency in food production was partly given to radio. The radio forums continued to do some good work. The research evaluation showed that, "the Pune radio forums helped to unify the villagers around common decisions and common acts, widening the influence of gram panchayat and broadening the scope of its action." The theme of the experiment was, "listen, discuss and act". Village radio forums were created and made to listen to half-hour radio program broadcast by AIR and then discussed the content of the program. In 1956, UNESCO selected India for a unique experiment known as ‘ Radio Rural Forums Project’, which was earlier successfully implemented in Canada. It also came to be known as “Akashwani” from 1957. These were operating under the name “Indian Broadcasting Service” until 1936 when it was given the present name “All India Radio (AIR)”. Broadcasting started in India in 1927 with two privately-owned transmitters at Mumbai and Calcutta which were taken over by the Government in 1930.
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