"As a word of wisdom for those running CRS, she said frequency was a national and "currently somewhat limited resource" and urged them to use it "optimally." Terming broadcast as a "hungry monster" which called for "constant, rich, relevant and meaningful feed," she said operators can tie-up with like-minded organisations in the same area if they could not generate the content by themselves."
What warm memories this news brings back! High school days, discovering George Orwell, first Animal Farm.... then 1984, and the Ministry of Truth working overtime to help citizens rediscover the truth, or newspeak... and Shakespeare. We now know that the number of stations has gone up (to 42 by our count, but the Ministry has said it is 41, and the Ministry is full of honorable people), but now we can cheerfully update our memories, given this heartening information, that the Ministry had announced the purpose of its Policy was to have 4,000 independent stations on the air at the end of 2008. Foolishly*, we had believed in a rosy vision, that they would be stations run by ordinary persons for their own informational benefit. The Ministry has done otherwise**, allocating over 92% of the stations to persons graced by their educational qualifications, who have the virtue of belonging to a sector that has proven its elite credentials, by leaving gigantic swathes of the country functionally illiterate - oh sorry, did I say illiterate? I mean of course having the ability to leave less than illegible marks on paper purporting to represent names. *misguided by our utterly naive and false memories of leader after leader over the past 67 years telling us about our infinite capacity for self-reliance **And the Ministry must be right, for they are all honorable persons By the way, I attended the Nasscom (IT industry association) annual forum yesterday, to find out that the partner country is Brasil (which, just like India, is the largest country in its region, with diverse people and languages). What a shame that the our democracy is unable to take a leaf from Brasil's example, given the current news that President Lula has moved a bill to decriminalise community broadcasters running unlicensed stations. Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com ________________________________ From: George Lessard <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 7:33:31 Subject: [creative-radio] Chennai,India: Growth of community radio on the upswing Growth of community radio on the upswing Hindu - Chennai,India Chennai (PTI): The growth of community radio in the country is on the upswing and number of functional Community Radio Stations (CRS) has grown from 27 last year to 41 today, with 38 of them located in educational institutions, a top official of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry said. 'The Ministry has issued letters of intent to about 129 institutions for setting up CRS. This includes 70 educational institutions, 31 NGOs and nine state agricultural universities among others," Esther Kar,Additional Director General, Press Information Bureau (PIB), said in her inaugural address at the Second Capacity Building Workshop on Community Radio here on Tuesday. Out of these, 21 institutions have received their Standing Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency Allocation (SACFA) clearance and eight have signed the Grant of Permission Agreement, she said. As a word of wisdom for those running CRS, she said frequency was a national and "currently somewhat limited resource" and urged them to use it "optimally." Terming broadcast as a "hungry monster" which called for "constant, rich, relevant and meaningful feed," she said operators can tie-up with like-minded organaisations in the same area if they could not generate the content by themselves. <http://www.hindu. com/thehindu/ holnus/004200902 101736.htm> __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Links | Members | Calendar -- This e-mail service is edited, managed and moderated by George Lessard http://mediamentor.ca Make a donation via PayPal: http://members.tripod.com/media002/make-a-donation-via-paypal.html Creative-Radio is an independent forum for people active in or interested in the use of radio in development, in particular promoting public health, improved education, protection of the environment, improved livelihoods, good governance and conflict mitigation. 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