Dear All,
Congratulations to all the stakeholders of the CR movement and the CRA
members. Mr. Kapil Sibal has decided to waive the spectrum fees for the
Community Radio.
It is a result of our joint effort by all of us CRA, the ministry of IB
(at the initiative of Ms. Supriya Sahoo), Dr.
It is indeed sad that the formal announcement by MoCIT is not even out in
the public domain,
and the conversation is tending towards who should get the credit. I'm sure
all involved in the CR sector have played their role.
Putting pressure is for all of us, and the final administrative decision
Dear all,
I just got off the phone with Ms Supriya Sahu, Jt Secy MoIB, who in turn
had just finished talking with the JS at MoCIT. I had called her to verify
the recent news about spectrum fee. She does not, as yet, have official
confirmation about this news. The JS MoCIT did say that the
For us, who work on the ground, there are new challenges every day. So it
is hope that keeps us alive. Any ray of hope is a reason to
cheer/celebrate/ or congratulate each other. Some movement is better than a
radio silence. If the report is not true- the fight will continue. But at
least let us
Echo Vinod's point. I met Aruna di and Nikhil by chance today on another
issue. I thanked her on behalf of all - and she mentioned that her letter had
included attachments- letters, petitions etc from many of us in the sector
(which Stalin had also pointed out in an earlier email). It is
Dear all,
With all the wonderful work happening in the CR community, I wanted to
encourage you to consider submitting a paper to DEV 2013 about any
technically innovative work you may have done -- problems faced in
running the station, pilots using mobile phones, etc. DEV is being held
in
