Ram Singh Boudh, a resident of Gajraula in Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh, is guarding the common-or-garden radio
When was the final time you tuned right into a radio station and sat by a collection of ads solely to hearken to your favorite track or present? On the earth of Spotify, YouTube, and different digital music companies, the great previous radio has turn out to be historical. However Ram Singh Boudh, a resident of Gajraula in Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh, is guarding the common-or-garden radio. His assortment of over 1,000 radios has secured him a place within the Guinness E book of World Information.
Mr Boudh has radios from the Twenties to 2010, bought from numerous markets of the nation, together with Delhi and Meerut. He has 1,400 radios however as per the rules of the Guinness World Information, all radios needs to be distinctive. The duplicates have been faraway from the record. With 1,257 radios, Mr Boudh broke the earlier report of M Prakash, who had a group of 625 radios.
When requested about his motive behind establishing a radio museum at dwelling, Mr Boudh stated it’s to make the long run era conscious of the influence of radio on society. He added,
10 years in the past, on October 3, 2014, PM Modi began Mann Ki Baat, giving a brand new lease of life to radio and Akashvani, bringing the broadcaster ads and cash.
In November 2023, throughout his month-to-month radio present Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recognised Mr Boudh’s efforts. In his deal with to the nation, PM Modi famous that Mann Ki Baat has made radio extra well-liked in each family. Sharing a letter by Mr Boudh, PM stated,
Ram Singh Ji has been accumulating radios for a lot of a long time. He says, that after Mann Ki Baat, folks’s curiosity about his radio museum has elevated.
Following PM’s point out, Mr Boudh obtained a particular invitation for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi this yr. He’s retired from the put up of supervisor of Warehouse Company of India.
Often known as the ‘radio man of India’, Mr Boudh claims to have the one radio museum on this planet.
With inputs from Afsar Ali