AIR band to compose for Swachh Bharat

NEW DELHI: Breaking away from the practice of hiring high-profile music composers for making musical compositions, the government has roped in India’s first national orchestra band – All India Radio’s Vaadya Vrind – to prepare a musical composition for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Vaadya Vrind, which has seen maestros like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pannalal Ghosh and other greats playing in the orchestra, would prepare the composition under violinist Johar Ali Khan.

The musical composition for PM Narendra Modi’s pet initiative would be played on radio channels to spread awareness about the cleanliness initiative.

Khan hadalso composed the music for Festival of India in Indonesia held in Jakarta last year.