FM transmitters for All India Radio have already been set up in 51 places in the northeast and taken into regular service and setting up of transmitters is in progress in 78 places.

Prasar Bharati sources told radioandmusic.com that the scheme for setting up 121 FM Transmitters in the North-Eastern Region was sanctioned under North-East Special (Phase-II) Package in 2006. In addition, the scheme for setting up of eight FM transmitters in North East Region was sanctioned under the New Scheme of the 11th Plan.

At present 10 private FM Stations are functioning in six cities in the North-East Region under policy on expansion of FM Radio services through private agencies (Phase-II). These include three each in Guwahati (Assam) and Gangtok (Sikkim) and one each in Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Shillong (Meghalaya), Aizawl (Mizoram), and Agartala (Tripura). Thus, Nagaland and Manipur are the only states not covered by private FM transmission.

Under the AIR schemes, Arunachal Pradesh will get 42 transmitters, Assam will get 21, Sikkim will get 16, Tripura 15, Mizoram 13, Manipur ten, Nagaland seven, and Meghalaya five transmitters.