[cr-india] Impact Assessment for existing CRS

[Mahesh Acharya]

Hi Upasana,

To my knowledge, there has been no need assessment done prior to setting up
CR. As others in this group who have involved with CR will agree, there has
been and will be consensus by community that CR in their locality is good
idea. When we ask them what benefit will it give, the answers will depend
upon the occupation/profession of the respondent. For example  for the namma
Dhwani Project in Kolar, Karnataka, when we asked what programs should be
broadcast through CR. The response was...in  early morning  there should be
devotional music, in afternoon program for women and kids and in the
evening, some agriculture broadcast.
This is precisely what All India Radio broadcasts every day for regional
programs.

When I asked a farmer his choice of program through CR, he said he wanted to
know  wholesale  rates of vegetables in nearby towns so that he can decide
to sell where profit is more.

I remember when I was in VOICES qualitative data on radio sets in five
villages of Kolar was available, the data was collected I think in 1999/2000
not sure.

Deccan Development Society, in Pastapur, may have some data that you are
looking at.

regards,
mahesh
9886 303077






On 3/12/07, Upasna Kakroo <upasna.kakroo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> HI,   During the recently concluded National CR consultation in Delhi, a
> lot of people talked about a needs assessment etc., which should be done
> prior to starting up a CRS . I had some questions on the same line -   1.
> Have some of the people done an impact assessment in areas which have
> already had CR functioning (in various ways like buying Airtime off AIR),
> and if so what are the key indicators which they used? 2. Can I be please
> directed to such documents, if they are available electronically   Rgds,
> Upasna
>   On 3/12/07, Frederick Noronha <fred at bytesforall.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Satheesh, Please could you take a look at the CR-India network,
> > and all the discussions that have gone into it:
> > http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india
> >
> > In particular, please go through the archives where you'll find some
> > interesting pointers: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/cr-india/
> >
> > Regards, FN
> >
> > PS: Please also see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cr-india (specially
> > under the FILES section)
> >
> > On 12/03/07, satheesh s <saradhasatheesh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > sir
> > > i am from tamil nadu at karuri read your article
> > >
> > > i would like to start the fm radio in my city so please tell me the
> > rule and
> > > regulation form me
> > > to do this and how i can i do this
> > > kindly response me
> > > 094421 23824
> > > regards
> > > satheesh
> > --
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Mahesh Acharya (VU3MBV)
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