Dear Dr. Sreedher, Thank you for the reply. Indeed your post offered a peek into the backstage activities for the regularization of CR for non academic institutes. Involvement of minister for nipping off the movement is no surprise to me as those (not all) in power tend be opportunistic and thats what the minister was exercising especially if the concept (CR) is new.
Though I have not met Shri Navin Chawla I appreciate his efforts along with EC. GyanVani and GD did not come out as originally planned could have many reasons. But being an optimist I am sure it would have had some impact and it would be educative to read some reports or findings if any. Yes I do agree with you that viable models should be in place, but the question is 'who decides that such model is viable while the other one is not'. When I think about this...this situation seems to be paradoxical. But at least in part the subject can be addressed in following way. 1.A non-mandatory Community Radio Treaty that all licensee's can become member. The treaty will outline all the tenets of CR. 2. Current CR guidelines which is very generic to be made specific in terms of campus radio, CR radio, farm radio etc. 3. Work backwards. The broadcast should be 'need based' and not the fact since we have license lets broadcast based. The best way to find out is involvement of community of that geographical area. Of course I am not trying to say that the above points is perfect solution but nevertheless at there will be a preamble to start with. CR is more about people and if individual ideologies precedes the objectives then I guess CR will not survive too long because such is the very nature of CR that it that it will not support and if it does, all we can do is wait and watch the out come. Best regards, Mahesh On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:09 AM, sreedher ramamurthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > reply to mahesh acharya > > Dear Mahesh > > > > I agree 100% with your concerns and questions. Gyan Vani was born not out > of any one lobbying for it or applied for it. I am going to write a book on > the 'birth and death' of Gyan vani soon and I also jouclarly say that one > day I am going to conduct a mock funeral for both Gyan Darshan and Gyan Vani > at the Lodi crematorium in Delhi in full fiew of the media. > > > > Gyan Vani did have members like Sevanti Ninan and Ashish Sen and did > offered 40% of its air time completely for Community and the NGOs. But the > successive managements at IGNOU who were falling at the feet of both NDA and > UPA ministers, thought GV as a public relations exercise and used it for it. > I was inconvenient and hence voluntarily left IGNOU with a heavy amount of > depression. Then by sheer luck, having seen the CR rules along with Mr > Jeyaweera once in delhi, and when the opportunity came, when MHRD was about > to turn down the cabinet notel, I interefered and facilitated to a very > small extent the passage of 2002 regulations. > > > > Having been a king of media centre at IGNOU, and having later become a non > entity at Anna Univesity, I applied for CR under those regulations with a > supporting vice chancellor. In those days we had to get more than 30 > licenses for the CR but today they have been reduced to 5 steps. Campus CR > became a reality because of NDA governments last minute PR exercise called > 'India Shining". From NDA to UPA it is a long story with a minister whose > family was running commercial CR went all out to kill this movement. BUt it > was left to Tsunami and the present Election commissioner and former I & B > secretary Navin Chawla to see the work done during that time, it was revived > at the highest level. He was able to convince the powers that be that we > much decentalise soon. He himself is sypathetic to civil society > organisations and is connected with many of them. > > > > Hence I never played any major role and nor would like to take credit for > anything that I have not done. > > > > What I meant by 'islands' was that the four star CR performers in the > country must come forward to create viable models and allow change in > attitude of people who are having some kind of thoughts on the subject . If > many countries can come together to form Unions, many parties come together > to have common minimum programmes, why not all CR enthusiasts come together > to get the movement on the track. Once they get stabilised, then Individual > ideologies could take front seat. > > > > There is no dearth of frequencies in India except in the Metros and that > also will vanish by 2012-2015, when India goes digital. We could have > millions of CR stations at that time. But the foundation is more important. > > > > regards sreedher > > _______________________________________________ > cr-india mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india >
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