[cr-india] World's largest school launches FM radio

[Nisha Narayanan]

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World's largest school launches FM Radio 
 
 
 
 
Lucknow: The world's largest school as recognised by the Guinness Book has made its foray into the media world with the launch of an Educational Frequency Modulation (FM) Radio Channel. 

Lucknow-based City Montessori School (CMS) would become the first intermediate level institution in the country to run an educational FM Radio. 

Union HRD minister Arjun Singh will inaugurate the Channel on July 1 next at a ceremony here. 

CMS is the biggest school in a single city anywhere in the world having over 29,000 students on its rolls. 

Addressing a news conference yesterday, CMS Founder-Manager Jagdish Gandhi said the 90.4 MHz FM Radio would air five hours programme daily in two shifts from 0700 to 0930 hrs and from 1900 to 2130 hrs. 

The Channel has materialised with the active support and cooperation of the All India Radio (AIR). 

''The Channel aims at establishing a strong link between the students, teachers and parents as well as act as a friendly channel for today's youth,'' said Gandhi. 

 

The FM Radio will also host phone-in programmes featuring guest lectures, career counselling, subject tutorials, interview with child psychologists, teaching sessions, besides quizzes based on general and subject knowledge. 

''It will encourage students to produce their programmes and act as anchors on the Radio shows,'' he added. 

United Nations General Assembly has invited Gandhi, also a social activist, to participate and provide inputs from NGOs in the hearings to reform the world body. 
 


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