MUMBAI: Sadhna Group is launching a regional channel Sadhna News in Bihar/Jharkhand on 14 December. The group's regional news channel is already available in Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh.

"We have obtained license and are completing the final works to launch the channel on 14 December," says an official.

Sadhna News will have six bureaus spread across Ranchi, Patna, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad and Gaya. Prabhat Dabbral is the executive director of the channel.

The group will be launching another regional channel in UP/Uttarakhand in the next three months.

Sadhna Group MD Rakesh Gupta said, "On the same lines of Sadhna News Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh, we have conceptualized various special programmes for Bihar/ Jharkhand news channel."

The channel will be uplinked on Thaicom satellite through VSNL Teleport. Studios with ultra modern facilities are under construction in cities such as Patna and Ranchi, the official said.