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[George Lessard]

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Subject: Uttar Pradesh , India:  Village Community Radio will give voice
to peo ple’s isspeople’s issues
From:    "George Lessard" <media at web.net>
Date:    Mon, January 12, 2009 00:04
To:      creative-radio at yahoogroups.com
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Community radio is the real voice of the people, it is a communication
service that caters to the interests and needs of a certain area, its
culture, craft, cuisine and above all social and development issues,” said
Mridul Srivastava, the station director of ‘Lalit Lokvani’.

‘Lalit Lokvani’, is a village community radio planned to be operational in
Lalitpur region of Uttar Pradesh state (India). It is a joint initiative
of a Sai Jyoti Gramudyog Seva Sansthan (a non-governmental organization)
and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), situated just 22 km from
Lalitpur in Alapur village of Birdha block.

The 15 km transmission range will take in its fold 60 villages comprising
around 100,000 population. While dry run has been initiated the actual
transmission will start after getting the license from the Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. For now, the community
radio station has been granted 90.4 megahertz frequency.

[...]

The Government of India made a policy of issuing private community radio
licenses for 5000 stations in November 2007. This made it possible for
registered non-government organizations to enter the field, said Augustine
Veliath from UNICEF.

“UNICEF saw the potential of this communication medium and selected
Lalitpur, one of its integrated project districts for setting up the
maiden community radio station,” informed Augustine.

“Such interactive sessions with the real people help broaden vision of the
media. The idea is to sensitize the press, give them in-depth information
on issues which they can then translate into reports and features,” said
Kulsum Talha, Secretary General, Media Nest.


http://nvonews.com/2009/01/10/village-community-radio-will-give-voice-to-peoples-issues/


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