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. |