[cr-india] cr-india Digest, Vol 68, Issue 3

Tue Jul 7 20:36:18 IST 2009

 Dear Suman

I feel that there is a hidden agenda at AMARC. An year back Steve spoke at
the Asia Media summit in KL about a non existent community radio in
Nagappatinam as the only Cr station in India. Even the Govt of India
representative present in KL countered this false claim.

You yourself attended the launch of CR course at IGNOu and is aware of the
situation in India. It could not happen due to oversight. India is a country
with worlds 25% of population living in.

The Indian Chapter of AMARC if at all it exists and the Asian Vice president
of AMARC are very well of aware of the developments in this country.

Such a glaring omission has happend when AMARC is hosting a major conference
in Bangalore in October 2009 and the data relating to the host country is
completely wrong.

Without giving some sort of explanations, please request your vice president
at Bangalore to get someone compile the factual data and bring out an
amended version of the directory immediately.

I am glad the first response came from Sajan and Mahesh Acharya. You will
have to understand the situation in each country and come out with a
publication which relates to reality and not false idealism

regards

sreedher

> Today's Topics:
>
>   1. Re:  AMARC Asia Pacific community Radio directory 2009
>      (Suman Basnet)
>   2. Re:  AMARC Asia Pacific community Radio directory 2009
>      (mahesh acharya)
>   3.  radioexpert (George Lessard)
>   4.  Celebrating 200th broadcast of Ek Duniya Ek Awaaz on 8th
>      July 2009, from 3.30pm at Dilli Haat, New Delhi (Satish Nagaraji)
>
>
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>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:21:46 +0545
> From: "Suman Basnet" <suman at wlink.com.np>
> Subject: Re: [cr-india] AMARC Asia Pacific community Radio directory
>        2009
> To: <cr-india at sarai.net>
> Message-ID: <000001c9fdf3$6553a2b0$2ffae810$@com.np>
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>
> Dear Sajan,
>
>
>
> Thank you very much for the frank comments on the directory. Even as we
> struggled to get the number of entries that we eventually managed to
> receive, we do realise that the current number of entries do not reflect
> the
> real picture of community broadcasting in the region. In addition to our
> inability to inspire broadcasters to respond to call for entries, language
> has been a barrier too. Many community broadcasters in Thailand, Indonesia,
> the Philippines, and countries in the Pacific cannot communicate in
> English.
> Many still do not use emails. I hope that these will be overcome as AMARC
> grows in these countries. The current edition of the directory and the
> first
> one as well, are at best seeds for a much comprehensive version to grow in
> future.
>
>
>
> Any support from you as well as members of this list will be
> enthusiastically welcomed.
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot once again and with warmest regards, Suman
>
>
>
> From: sajan venniyoor [mailto:venniyoor at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:11 AM
> To: CR India
> Subject: Re: [cr-india] AMARC Asia Pacific community Radio directory 2009
>
>
>
> Dear Suman,
>
>
>
> Thank you for issuing the 2009 edition of the AMARC Asia Pacific CR
> directory.
>
>
>
> I am afraid I found it rather diasppointing, at least as far as the CR
> scene
> in India is concerned. The Directory seems to give the impression that
> there
> are just about five (non-operational) CR initiatives in India, along with
> half a dozen consultants, academic institutions and NGOs with an interest
> in
> CR. That is not the case.
>
>
>
> At the last count, 50 licenses were issued to CR stations in India, of
> which
> 45 are now operational, including 40 campus-based CRS. CR stations like
> Sangham Radio (Pastapur) and Radio Bundelkhand (Orchha) have been running
> successfully for almost a year now, but they don't figure in the Directory.
> Anna University's 'Anna FM' completed five years in February this year.
>
>
>
> The number of production houses, academic institutions and NGOs with an
> interest in community radio would run into the hundreds.
>
>
>
> I am also disappointed to see that countries like Thailand, with its
> hundreds -- if not thousands -- of community radio stations, don't figure
> in
> the Directory at all.
>
>
>
> The manner in which the Directory is compiled leads to these imbalances, I
> know, but with the accelerating growth of CR in the Asia Pacific, we need
> to
> find better ways of putting it together. Documenting CR initiatives in the
> region could be one of the issues that we discuss at the AMARC Regional
> Conference in October.
>
>
>
> warm regards,
>
> Sajan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Suman Basnet <suman at wlink.com.np> wrote:
>
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
>
>
> I am very happy to inform you that the second edition of the AMARC Asia
> Pacific CR directory 2009 is available online at
> http://asiapacific.amarc.org/index.php?p=2_Conference_Asia_Pacific_2009and
> please follow the link in that page. Or you can also directly visit
>
> http://amarcwiki.amarc.org/upload/documents/AMARC_CR_Directory_2009_Final.pd
> f<http://amarcwiki.amarc.org/upload/documents/AMARC_CR_Directory_2009_Final.pdf>
> .
>
>
>
> Please circulate this information in your networks.
>
>
>
> With warmest regards, Suman
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:40:51 +0530
> From: mahesh acharya <mahesh at radio4agri.com>
> Subject: Re: [cr-india] AMARC Asia Pacific community Radio directory
>        2009
> To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
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> Hi Suman, Sajan and all others,
>
> I read with interest the directory and though I appreciate the teams effort
> to compile it, but I feel it gives a very micro picture of community radio
> in India.  India is very unique when it comes to CR policy. One of its kind
> I must say. After allowing academic institutes to run CR it took policy
> makers  four long years to consider for grant of license to CBO/NGO's!!
> Collectively our job to simplify the CR situation for the benefit of new be
> community radio station operators and present a balanced picture which I
> think is the purpose of the directory.
>
> As I see it CR in India is...
>
> 1. University run
> 2. Colleges run
> 3. School run (may come in future)
> 4. NGO run, with two sub categories. First one owned by a NGO while the
> other..who broadcast over All India Radio. Of course such NGO's will not
> come under community radio at all and hence should be labeled differently.
> 5. Run by/ started by community based organizations which got support from
> NGO and not other way round. I know of five such groups that I trained in
> Uttrakhand who have lost their identity as some NGO helped them out for
> license etc. These groups from Uttranchal were formed during two week
> Community Radio workshop that I conducted. Post training some of the groups
> got help from NGO's since they did not have resources to carry it forward.
> These are the kind of organizations I and others would like to be included
> in the directory.
>
> Thus....it would be great if CR in India are categorized as mentioned above
> next time the directory comes up and the team thinks it appropriate.
>
> Some other observations are that in order to qualify for being included in
> the directory, ' NGO with interest in community radio' is not enough. By
> the
> time your next directory comes up, believe it or not such ngo's will double
> in number. So there got to be a bench mark for inclusion. Maybe this could
> be chalked out in the forthcoming consultation in Bangalore.  Plus I also
> noticed that in the format, information mentioned  is not accurate in some
> cases. I presume it to be oversight.  For example. In year of establishment
> for an NGO it states - yet to be established. But under types of programs
> broadcast it says two hours per week.
>
> Best Regards,
> Mahesh Acharya
> Bangalore
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:55 AM, sajan venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Suman,
> > Thank you for issuing the 2009 edition of the AMARC Asia Pacific CR
> > directory.
> >
> > I am afraid I found it rather diasppointing, at least as far as the CR
> > scene in India is concerned. The Directory seems to give the impression
> that
> > there are just about five (non-operational) CR initiatives in India,
> along
> > with half a dozen consultants, academic institutions and NGOs with an
> > interest in CR. That is not the case.
> >
> > At the last count, 50 licenses were issued to CR stations in India, of
> > which 45 are now operational, including 40 campus-based CRS. CR stations
> > like Sangham Radio (Pastapur) and Radio Bundelkhand (Orchha) have been
> > running successfully for almost a year now, but they don't figure in the
> > Directory. Anna University's 'Anna FM' completed five years in February
> this
> > year.
> >
> > The number of production houses, academic institutions and NGOs with an
> > interest in community radio would run into the hundreds.
> >
> > I am also disappointed to see that countries like Thailand, with its
> > hundreds -- if not thousands -- of community radio stations, don't figure
> in
> > the Directory at all.
> >
> > The manner in which the Directory is compiled leads to these imbalances,
> I
> > know, but with the accelerating growth of CR in the Asia Pacific, we need
> to
> > find better ways of putting it together. Documenting CR initiatives in
> the
> > region could be one of the issues that we discuss at the AMARC Regional
> > Conference in October.
> >
> > warm regards,
> > Sajan
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Suman Basnet <suman at wlink.com.np> wrote:
> >
> >>  Dear friends and colleagues,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I am very happy to inform you that the second edition of the AMARC Asia
> >> Pacific CR directory 2009 is available online at
> >>
> http://asiapacific.amarc.org/index.php?p=2_Conference_Asia_Pacific_2009andplease follow the link in that page. Or you can also directly visit
> >>
> http://amarcwiki.amarc.org/upload/documents/AMARC_CR_Directory_2009_Final.pdf
> .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Please circulate this information in your networks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> With warmest regards, Suman
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:39:37 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "George Lessard" <media at web.net>
> Subject: [cr-india] radioexpert
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:06:47 +0530
> From: Satish Nagaraji <satish.n at oneworld.net>
> Subject: [cr-india] Celebrating 200th broadcast of Ek Duniya Ek Awaaz
>        on 8th July 2009, from 3.30pm at Dilli Haat, New Delhi
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