This is a good example of what happens if you, even by mistake, get associated with All India Radio. They behave like BIG BROTHERS; and claim what ever comes into their contact as theirs.
By design, experience and mental make up, All Indian Radio program officers can not function in the way a community radio set up demands. The NGO should not have allowed AIR this much of domination. All India Radio's First Ever, so called Community Radio was established in Nagarcoil, decades back. The aim was to heavily involve community of listeners into planning and executing and participating in the programs. The AIR was only supposed to play a 'member secretaries' role. It is due to the structural mix and the inability of bureaucracy to learn new things and sincerely accept the participation of the community into their affairs, that that 'experiment' failed miserably; which they don't want to accept. Now that, AIR being a Corporation they want to earn their livelihood in all the ways possible. They would also like to see if they have any thing in CR sector also. One thing is certain to happen. They would spoil the very spirit of CR and the NGO concern would not know about this, unless they are very careful. M.Abdul Rehman Pasha -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinod Pavarala Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:12 AM To: sajan venniyoor Cc: CR India Subject: Re: [cr-india] I&B ministry launches community radio? I think Development Alternatives need to put out a clarification about whose station this is. I can understand inaccuracies occurring as a result of careless journalism, but the PIB itself issuing a press release claiming this to be a) that this is MIB's radio station, and b) that this is the first-ever community radio station. both of these are inaccurate. The cr community should be alert to all kinds of claims and assertions that will keep coming out now, with the cr sector picking up some steam with the launch of a couple of stations. vinod On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:06 AM, sajan venniyoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Government schools, KVKs, the Border Security Force ... and now the > Information & Broadcasting ministry itself? > > According to this PIB press release<http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=44222>, > the ministry of Information & Broadcasting has launched 'its first-ever' > community radio station in Orchha, in collaboration with an NGO. I could > have sworn that Development Alternatives was running the station on its own, > but this *is* an official government press release... > > Sajan > > *Press Information Bureau* > * > I&B tie up with NGO for community radio * > Press Release - 24 Oct 2008 > http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=44222 > > The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has launched its first-ever > community radio in collaboration with an NGO, the Society for Development > Alternatives, on October 23, 2008 at Taragram, Orchha in Bundelkhand region > of Madhya Pradesh. This has become possible after the Ministry's permission > to the Society, a Delhi based NGO, to establish, maintain and operate a > Community Radio. 34 NGOs have so far got I&B Ministry's permission to set up > and operate Community Radio Stations in different parts of the country. > > The Society for Development Alternatives, among other things, is engaged in > Natural Resource Management in the region through a range of activities > involving conversion of wasteland to productive land, water conservation and > promotion of appropriate farming practices and livestock management. > Besides, the society is developing partnerships and alliances with banks, > research institutes, government departments, panchayats and civil society > organizations to ensure convergence of developmental goals in Bundelkhand. > > The Government of India, in December 2006, had liberalized the Policy on > Community Radio by bringing in the civil society and voluntary > organizations, agricultural universities, ICAR institutions, Krishi Vigyan > Kendras, etc also under its ambit. The policy was liberalized with a view to > allow greater participation by the civil society on issues of development > and social change. > > The Community Radio initiative aims to empower the women, youth and > marginalized groups to take part in local self-governance and overall > socio-economic and cultural development of the area. > > > _______________________________________________ > cr-india mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india > -- Prof. Vinod Pavarala Head, Department of Communication & Dean Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts & Communication University of Hyderabad Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046 Phone: +91-40-23135500/23011553 (off); 94407-24914 (m) http://172.16.1.100/academic/school_study/sarojini_naidu_school/program_comm unication.html _______________________________________________ cr-india mailing list [email protected] https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india
