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Many responsibilities ahead of SLBC in country's development - President

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is the oldest of radio service in the Asian Region and I am delighted to issue a message of greetings on the occasion of it completing 39 years service, stated President Mahinda Rajapakse in a message to commemorate the 39th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.

The message: The Radio Ceylon established in 1925, just at the lapse of three years since the inauguration of the British Broadcasting Corporation, gathered momentum within eight years to be reckoned as the most forceful mass communication medium in the island.

During the past 8 decades, the SLBC which is the amalgamation of many of its predecessors including the Radio Ceylon, has performed its eminent role as the pioneer of the mass media services in the country.

The need of an effective mass media communication process is of paramount importance at a time like today when we approach a new era of National Development targeting the social, cultural and economic prosperity.

On that score, the responsibility of a Radio medium of communication is wider in scope. In this country, the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is necessarily charged with this onerous national responsibility.

Protecting and fostering the social structures of cultural values and national heritage, developing education and children's mind, orientation of adult mind to a higher taste and elucidation of national development process on regional basis are some of the special developmental tasks the national radio services are expected to undertake. I am confident that the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is quite capable of undertaking these responsibilities,

On this occasion of stepping on to the 40th anniversary I convey my good wishes to the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and hope that it will make the best use of available material and human resources and render a national service, dynamic, meaningful and fruitful towards the development process of the country.

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