The radio license

 Shri Nathji had a Radio made by the famous foreign company PYE and he listened to the news and whatever music came on it, frequently. Now surprisingly in those day, a radio license had to be renewed every year which Shri nathji used to do. Radio broadcast was started in India in 1928. You had to buy a BRL(Broadcast Receiver's License) to listen to your radio- Rs. 10 per annum which was a big amount in 1928.
This licence was required to own a radio to fund public broadcasting, which was a source of colonial administration and communication but also an expensive venture given limited funds. The annual fee for the BRL helped the government manage and finance the radio system, as well as maintain control over the medium which could be used for nationalist movements.  The license fees helped to fund the limited and often underfunded radio broadcasting system that served the public. In addition to funding the broadcast service, license fees also served as a source of revenue for the Government.
 The system continued after India's independence and was only abolished in the mid-1980s. Latter  an radio sets become cheaper and there was the increasing affordability of televisions and other consumer electronics resulting in decline of the BRL system and it was abolished.