Akashvani Surat

AIR Surat is part of All India Radio broadcasting live from Surat, Gujarat, broadcasting at 101.1 FM. All India Radio Surat plays Akashvani news, talk programmes, current affairs, world news, and plays Gujarati songs and Gujarati talk programmes. Listen to Akashvani Surat radio station online.
Akashvani Surat broadcasts from Surat, Gujarat’s second-largest city and a global hub for the diamond-cutting and polishing industry, as well as one of India’s largest textile and man-made fibre manufacturing centres, sitting on the banks of the Tapi river near the Arabian Sea coast. On 101.1 FM, the station carries the standard AIR mix of news, talk shows, and Indian music, with programming primarily in Gujarati that reflects the city’s fast-paced trading culture, its large migrant workforce drawn from across India for the diamond and textile trades, and Surat’s reputation for civic cleanliness and urban development. As part of the South Gujarat network alongside neighboring AIR stations in Ahwa, Vadodara, and Rajkot, Surat’s station plays an important role connecting the city’s business and industrial communities with its surrounding agricultural hinterland, often carrying content on trade, industry updates, and civic affairs alongside its regular news coverage.
Surat’s identity as a commercial powerhouse with a large migrant and multicultural population gives the station’s programming a distinctive urban character, blending Gujarati talk shows and folk music with segments relevant to the city’s textile and diamond workforce, alongside coverage of Surat’s famous kite-flying and Diwali-season festivities. The station also complements sister channels like Vividh Bharati and Akashvani Gujarati by focusing on localized Surat-specific news and civic information. For listeners across Surat and the wider South Gujarat region, Akashvani offers a dependable mix of information and Gujarati music suited to daily life in this fast-growing industrial and commercial hub.
Station Name: Akashvani Surat (AIR Surat)
Frequency: 101.1 FM
Location: AIR, Bhatar Road, Surat – 395001, Gujarat