to better radio days in Bangladesh.. hope CR truly democratizes freedom of speech and expression. congratulations!
warmth, ekta maraa.in On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:38 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > On behalf of Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal (ACORAB), I > congratulate BNNRC for being successful on establishing community radio in > Bangladesh. > Cheers! > > Pramod Tandukar > Executive Director > ACORAB > > > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: AHM Bazlur Rahman [email protected] > Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:20:35 +0600 > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Subject: [Asiapacific-general] Breaking News - Bangladesh : 12 > CommunityRadio have Clearance first time in Bangladesh > > > Bangladesh: 12 Community Radio have Clearance first time in Bangladesh > > Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), since its > inception, has been advocating with the government and with other > organizations for the promotion of Community Radio to address critical > social issues at community level, such as poverty and social exclusion, > empowerment of marginalized rural groups and catalyze democratic process in > decision making and ongoing development efforts. > > Today afternoon (3:15 pm ) Initially Ministry of Information, Government > of People's Republic of Bangladesh has approved 12 Community Radio > Initiators for installation and operation of community radio in Bangladesh > first time. To ensure free flow of information and people's right to > information government enacted Right to Information Act 2009. Community > radio approval is a strong step to empower people in this regards. > > The main objective of community radio is to provide livelihood related > information to the rural communities in an understandable way. Agriculture, > education, health, disaster, women and child issues, market price, > services, etc. will be cover in the community radio for the community > people. > > Initially government approved 11 Initiators like Young Power in > Action(YPSA) - Sitakunda, Chittagong, Nalta Community Hospital- Satkhira, > LDRO- Bogra, BRAC- Moulivi Bazer, Barandro Community-Naogaon, Proyas-Chapai > Nababgonj, CCD- Rajshahi, Srizoni- Jhinaidhah, EC Bangladesh- Munsihigonj, > MMC- Barguna and RDRS- Kurigram. > > One government organization to install and operate Rural Radio in Amtali > under Barguna district, a rural community radio will be established by > Agriculture Information Service of the Agriculture Department of Ministry > of Agriculture. > > > Bazlu > _______________________ > AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR > Chief Executive Officer > Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC) > > House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 > Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh > > Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501 > 01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105 > > E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] > www.bnnrc.net > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - > http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE > > > Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to > www.crforum.in > -- -this too shall pass-
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