---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Uttar Pradesh , India: Village Community Radio will give voice to peo ples isspeoples issues From: "George Lessard" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, January 12, 2009 00:04 To: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
[excerpt] Community radio is the real voice of the people, it is a communication service that caters to the interests and needs of a certain area, its culture, craft, cuisine and above all social and development issues, said Mridul Srivastava, the station director of Lalit Lokvani. Lalit Lokvani, is a village community radio planned to be operational in Lalitpur region of Uttar Pradesh state (India). It is a joint initiative of a Sai Jyoti Gramudyog Seva Sansthan (a non-governmental organization) and the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), situated just 22 km from Lalitpur in Alapur village of Birdha block. The 15 km transmission range will take in its fold 60 villages comprising around 100,000 population. While dry run has been initiated the actual transmission will start after getting the license from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. For now, the community radio station has been granted 90.4 megahertz frequency. [...] The Government of India made a policy of issuing private community radio licenses for 5000 stations in November 2007. This made it possible for registered non-government organizations to enter the field, said Augustine Veliath from UNICEF. UNICEF saw the potential of this communication medium and selected Lalitpur, one of its integrated project districts for setting up the maiden community radio station, informed Augustine. Such interactive sessions with the real people help broaden vision of the media. The idea is to sensitize the press, give them in-depth information on issues which they can then translate into reports and features, said Kulsum Talha, Secretary General, Media Nest. http://nvonews.com/2009/01/10/village-community-radio-will-give-voice-to-peoples-issues/ _______________________________________________ Asiapacific-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.amarc.org/mailman/listinfo/asiapacific-general _______________________________________________ cr-india mailing list [email protected] https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india
