Radio's glorious role in the Liberation War began with the call of independence from Radio Pakistan, Chittagong. After the formation of Mujibnagar government on 17 April 1971, Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra (Radio Centre of Independent Bangladesh) started broadcasting from 25 May 1971, the birth date of poet kazi nazrul islam. It ceased broadcasting from 19 December 1971, when the Bangladesh government-in-exile moved to Dhaka from where it started broadcasting through transmitters of former Radio Pakistan. The Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra (Begening it was Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Betar Kendro as a Clandestine Radio ) from where today's Bangladesh Betar born, in fact, evolved from the Kalurghat in Chittagong transmission centre from where the declaration of independence was made by Ziaur Rahman under the learship of Shaikh Mujibur Rahman. The Kalurghat radio centre was abandoned when it was heavily shelled by the Pakistan Air Force on March 30. The centre, however, resumed its second...
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