[cr-india] Lukewarm response to community radio in state

[Vickram Crishna]

How depressing! Even after the policy change, the NGOs and communities (no wait, there is nothing like community in this policy) fall short. tsk, tsk. Such a shame. We really are an ungrateful lot.

And look! the government is falling over itself to lend a helping hand, "We can only help issue the license, the rest the institute or NGO has to look into." As ever, "The greatest challenge will be for the NGOs running these stations to make them viable, rather than leaning on endless grants. The radio policy allows five minutes of advertisements for every hour of programming, barely enough to cover costs."

Actually, this article doesn't even need my highlighting its most ironic points. The writer has managed to do it all by herself, although she may not have noticed.

 Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Alokesh Gupta <alokeshgupta at gmail.com>
To: DX-INDIA <dx_india at yahoogroups.com>; CR-INDIA <cr-india at mail.sarai.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 9 September, 2008 22:28:46
Subject: [cr-india] Lukewarm response to community radio in state

Lukewarm response to community radio in state

9 Sep 2008, 0516 hrs IST, Swati Shinde,TNN



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/cr-india/attachments/20080910/680f24bb/attachment.html