[cr-india] cr-india Digest, Vol 62, Issue 1
Rajesh Agrawal
rajeshagrawal30 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 11:24:12 IST 2010
"Congratulations to all of you". And hope you will succeed in the
progress of Community Radio Station's Stablishment campaign. Community
Radio Stations are real need of Indian society. It will certainly
have a voice of community.
Rajesh Agrawal
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> 1. New Board elected for Community Radio Forum, India
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> 2. From AMARC meet in Bangalore... some images and short videos
> (Frederick Noronha)
> 3. state level CR consultations in Uttarakhand and UP (10 - 13
> March, 2010) (sajan venniyoor)
> 4. AMARC... in Bangalore (Frederick)
> 5. Re: state level CR consultations in Uttarakhand and UP (10 -
> 13 March, 2010) (Ramnarayan.K)
> 6. AMARC: THE BANGALORE COMMUNITY RADIO DECLARATION (George Lessard)
> 7. "May God save Community Radio: Experts" (sajan venniyoor)
> 8. Radio Asia 2010: Community radio dissected (sajan venniyoor)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:00:43 +0530
> From: sajan venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> Subject: [cr-india] New Board elected for Community Radio Forum, India
> To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
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> At the recently held AGM of the Community Radio Forum (19 Feb 2010,
> Bangalore), a newly elected board took office for the next two years. The
> governing board which was elected consists of the following members: Algole
> Narsamma, Vinod Pavarala, Nagaraj, Sajan Venniyoor, N. Ramakrishnan, Hemant
> Babu, Mitu Varma and Ashish Sen.
>
> The governing board decided to co-opt the following additional
> members: Kutch Mahila Vikas Sanghatan, Gurgaon Ki Awaz, Heval Vani and
> Radio Bundelkhand.
>
> There was an election for office bearers from within the eight governing
> board members. These four office bearers will constitute the executive
> committee of the CR forum.
>
> They are:
> Vinod Pavarala – President
> Mitu Varma – Vice President
> Sajan Venniyoor – General Secretary
> N. Ramakrishnan – Treasurer
>
> The CRF office will be set up in New Delhi.
>
> Sajan Venniyoor
> General Secretary
> Community Radio Forum
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> From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoronha at gmail.com>
> Subject: [cr-india] From AMARC meet in Bangalore... some images and
> short videos
> To: cr-india at sarai.net
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> While passing through Bangalore on one day of the AMARC Asia-Pacific
> meet, I managed to pick up some photographs and short video
> interviews, that might be of interest:
>
> Some (in formal) pics from the event:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157623510829846/
>
> Ashish Sen... on community radio in the Asia Pacific
> Ashish Sen is president for AMARC (Asia-Pacific). AMARC is the
> Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. Here he talks about
> AMARC and what it means to the region, including the issues and
> challenges thrown-up in the Asia-Pacific.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAALYIhoRE
>
> SEWA ... takes to the airwaves
> Ahmedabad-headquartered The Self-Employed Women's Association of India
> (SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in
> India. SEWA was founded in 1972 by the noted Gandhian and civil rights
> leader Dr Ela Bhatt. SEWA's main office is located in Ahmedabad,
> Gujarat, and it works in several states of India. SEWA had a
> membership of 966,139 in the year 2008 (Source: Wikipedia). SEWA's
> Namrata Bali talks about why radio and the media is important for an
> organisation like this. Contacts sewaacdy at youtele.com,
> mahilasewatrust at vsnl.net http://www.sewaacademy.org
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNDUuPxWoeI
>
> From deep down south, an alternative broadcast venture in Madurai
> Just as I was on my way to Madurai, I ran into E. James
> Rajasekaran (MA, MPhil) of the PARD. The People's Association
> for Rural Development, as chance would have it, is a
> Madurai-based organisation that recently got a license to
> broadcast through its own community radio station. Contacts
> pardmadurai at hotmail dot com or phone 9543903735 (mobile).
> Office is at 10/8 Annai Abirami Street, Sirhi Vinayagar Koil
> Street, Thasildhar Nagar, Madurai 625020. Some insights and
> views from the deep south of India.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ifrW19yc8
>
> Radio training for women... something that's their due
> Bianca Miglioretto, of Isis International, is a passionate advocate
> for the cause of women getting more tech training in community radio
> stations, in Asia, as in the rest of the globe. She's a great trainer
> (I've been for one of her sessions... from
> zero-to-a-radio-jingle-in-three-hours-fl at) and very articulate about
> why change is needed on the access-to-technology-for-women front.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMSXNLYKnfc
>
> Radio alternatives... in Bihar, Kashmir and elsewhere
> Anthropologist, journalist andnow project officer. That's
> Kazimuddin (Kazu) Ahmed, who speaks of the plans of the Panos
> Institute (D222 First Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi
> 110024) in the field of radio alternatives in India. Kazu can
> be contacted at kazu at panossouthasia dot org and the
> website of their organisation is at
> http://www.panossouthasia.org (Incidentally, Kazu wrote a
> chapter for a book I recently co-edited, on environmental
> journalism in India, called The Green Pen, Sage, Jan 2010,
> but we never met till this encounter!)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9pm7ssI7A
>
> Alternatives in the media, alternatives to the media
> Dr Pradip Ninan Thomas is one of the early Indian scholars who has
> persistently looked at media alternatives, both within India and beyond. He
> is presently associate professor of the School of Journalism & Communication
> at the University of Queensland at Brisbane. He talks of his work and his
> plans, and how the media debate of today links up with the Sean Macbride and
> NIIO debates of the 1970s.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSYFSgqoto
>
> --
> Frederick Noronha
> Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography ::
> blogging
> P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 A:784 Saligao 403511 Goa India
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:20:03 +0530
> From: sajan venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> Subject: [cr-india] state level CR consultations in Uttarakhand and UP
> (10 - 13 March, 2010)
> To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
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> Dear all,
>
> The next two state-level CR consultations will be held in Mukteshwar
> (Uttarakhand) and IIT Kanpur.
>
> 1. Ninth State level consultation, capacity building and screening commitee
> meeting - for Uttarakhand at TERI Retreat, Mukhteswar, during 10th and 11th
> March 2010.
> 2. Tenth State level consultation, capacity building and screening commitee
> meeting - for Uttarpradesh at IIT, Kanpur on 12-13th March, 2010.
>
> If you'd like to attend either of these events, please register here -
> http://www.cemca.org/crregister.asp
>
> Sajan
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> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:30:51 +0530
> From: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
> فريدريك نورونيا <fred at bytesforall.org>
> Subject: [cr-india] AMARC... in Bangalore
> To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
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>
> While passing through Bangalore on one day of the AMARC Asia-Pacific
> meet, I managed to pick up some photographs and short video
> interviews, that might be of interest:
>
> Some (in formal) pics from the event:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157623510829846/
>
> Ashish Sen... on community radio in the Asia Pacific
> Ashish Sen is president for AMARC (Asia-Pacific). AMARC is the
> Association of Community Radio Broadcasters. Here he talks about
> AMARC and what it means to the region, including the issues and
> challenges thrown-up in the Asia-Pacific.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehAALYIhoRE
>
> SEWA ... takes to the airwaves
> Ahmedabad-headquartered The Self-Employed Women's Association of India
> (SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in
> India. SEWA was founded in 1972 by the noted Gandhian and civil rights
> leader Dr Ela Bhatt. SEWA's main office is located in Ahmedabad,
> Gujarat, and it works in several states of India. SEWA had a
> membership of 966,139 in the year 2008 (Source: Wikipedia). SEWA's
> Namrata Bali talks about why radio and the media is important for an
> organisation like this. Contacts sewaacdy at youtele.com,
> mahilasewatrust at vsnl.net http://www.sewaacademy.org
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNDUuPxWoeI
>
> From deep down south, an alternative broadcast venture in Madurai
> Just as I was on my way to Madurai, I ran into E. James
> Rajasekaran (MA, MPhil) of the PARD. The People's Association
> for Rural Development, as chance would have it, is a
> Madurai-based organisation that recently got a license to
> broadcast through its own community radio station. Contacts
> pardmadurai at hotmail dot com or phone 9543903735 (mobile).
> Office is at 10/8 Annai Abirami Street, Sirhi Vinayagar Koil
> Street, Thasildhar Nagar, Madurai 625020. Some insights and
> views from the deep south of India.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ifrW19yc8
>
> Radio training for women... something that's their due
> Bianca Miglioretto, of Isis International, is a passionate advocate
> for the cause of women getting more tech training in community radio
> stations, in Asia, as in the rest of the globe. She's a great trainer
> (I've been for one of her sessions... from
> zero-to-a-radio-jingle-in-three-hours-fl at) and very articulate about
> why change is needed on the access-to-technology-for-women front.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMSXNLYKnfc
>
> Radio alternatives... in Bihar, Kashmir and elsewhere
> Anthropologist, journalist andnow project officer. That's
> Kazimuddin (Kazu) Ahmed, who speaks of the plans of the Panos
> Institute (D222 First Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi
> 110024) in the field of radio alternatives in India. Kazu can
> be contacted at kazu at panossouthasia dot org and the
> website of their organisation is at
> http://www.panossouthasia.org (Incidentally, Kazu wrote a
> chapter for a book I recently co-edited, on environmental
> journalism in India, called The Green Pen, Sage, Jan 2010,
> but we never met till this encounter!)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9pm7ssI7A
>
> Alternatives in the media, alternatives to the media
> Dr Pradip Ninan Thomas is one of the early Indian scholars who has
> persistently looked at media alternatives, both within India and beyond. He
> is presently associate professor of the School of Journalism & Communication
> at the University of Queensland at Brisbane. He talks of his work and his
> plans, and how the media debate of today links up with the Sean Macbride and
> NIIO debates of the 1970s.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSYFSgqoto
>
> --
> Frederick Noronha
> Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography ::
> blogging
> P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 A:784 Saligao 403511 Goa India
>
> Please add a 'signature' below your email. Makes it easy when someone
> wants to contact you!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:32:51 +0500
> From: "Ramnarayan.K" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [cr-india] state level CR consultations in Uttarakhand
> and UP (10 - 13 March, 2010)
> To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
> Message-ID:
> <6c9588d41002271932xd6422celfd05febee035b0dd at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Hi
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:50 AM, sajan venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> The next two state-level CR consultations will be held in Mukteshwar
>> (Uttarakhand) and IIT Kanpur.
>> 1. Ninth State level consultation, capacity building and screening
>> commitee
>> meeting - for Uttarakhand at TERI Retreat, Mukhteswar, during 10th and
>> 11th
>> March 2010.
>
> What exactly are these "consultations about" - who are expected to attend.
>
> would appreciate inputs
>
> regards
> ram
> Uttarakhand
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:47:54 -0700 (MST)
> From: "George Lessard" <media at web.net>
> Subject: [cr-india] AMARC: THE BANGALORE COMMUNITY RADIO DECLARATION
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Message-ID: <35141.216.108.22.182.1267339674.squirrel at flymail.web.net>
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>
> RT @mediamentor: THE BANGALORE #COMMUNITY #RADIO DECLARATION #AMARC
> http://ow.ly/1c4Ok
>
> February 28, 2010, 3:14 am
> Filed under: Human Rights, Uncategorized | Tags: AMARC, asia pacific,
> bangalore, freedom of expression, Human Rights, india, kodao, Raymund
> Villanueva, right to know
>
>
> The right to know is essential to every person’s humanity. So we believe,
> so we struggle, so we live, so we celebrate.
>
> We, the champions and supporters of community broadcasting in the
> Asia-Pacific region, shall safeguard, uphold and promote Freedom of
> Opinion and Expression. This right goes hand-in-hand with the freedom to
> communicate and be informed. This is guaranteed by Article 19 of the
> Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
>
> We affirm that everyone has a right to life, with dignity. All people have
> the undeniable right to be informed about decisions affecting the quality
> of their lives such as right to health, right to education, right to work,
> the right to free expression, and the right to information.
>
> In cognizance of these principles, we declare:
>
> • Our reaffirmation of AMARC’s principles on Democratic Regulation in
> Community Broadcasting (May 2008) and the Montreal Declaration (November
> 2008).
> • Our recognition of the increasing concentration and corporatization of
> commercial, private and state media.
> • Our recognition of the need for forging alliances and building networks
> at local, national, regional and international levels for solidarity,
> advocacy and sharing of information, experiences and technologies.
> • Our recognition that access to clean water and the right to food are
> universal human rights.
> • Our recognition of the diversity in our communities.
> • Our affirmation of the immediate need for oppressed and marginalized
> communities to take control over their own means of communication.
> • Our affirmation, in conjunction with the Indigenous Statement of the
> Bangalore Declaration, of the immediate need for Indigenous people’s right
> to vote, the right to self determination, rights to land, resources,
> livelihoods, cultures, and their right to live with dignity.
> • Our affirmation of our solidarity with those discriminated against on
> the basis of their sexual orientation including the lesbian, gay, bisexual
> and transgendered community and assert their right to live with dignity
> and without fear of persecution.
> • Our affirmation of gender equality and the rights of women to own and
> control their means of communication.
> • Our recognition of the special needs of migrant communities, internally
> displaced persons, guest workers and refugees and their right to live free
> from discrimination, harassment and violence.
> • Our recognition of the disproportionate and disastrous impact of Climate
> Change (natural and human created) especially on Indigenous Peoples, the
> poor, the marginalized, women, and children.
> • Our recognition of the need for community radio broadcasters to report
> issues in a manner that promotes non violent responses to conflict based
> on the values of respect, dignity and diversity and which seeks to break
> down barriers and stereotypes.
> • Our affirmation of our condemnation of all forms of violence and
> legislation that restrict citizen’s rights, spreads an atmosphere of fear
> and serve sectarian interests or extremist views.
>
> Having recognized these challenges and affirmed our commitment to
> solidarity with those who are confronted by these challenges we reaffirm
> the Jakarta Declaration of AMARC Asia-Pacific, December 2005, and we
> continue our struggle to democratize the media.
>
> It is against this backdrop that we commit ourselves and our community
> radios to:
>
> • Place people’s communications rights at the centre of development and
> support initiatives for access to digital and other technological
> opportunities that enable community broadcasting in an ever-widening
> scale;
> • Create spaces on the airwaves for diverse and marginalized voices,
> irrespective of caste, creed, race, colour, gender, sexuality, faith, and
> differently-abled or other differences;
> • Challenge the hegemony of commercial, private and state media by
> promoting community-owned and operated media as an essential tool to the
> preservation of the diversity of voices, cultures, languages and
> ecosystems;
> • Lobby governments to institute adequate mechanisms promoting media
> freedom, protection of community media, and protection of journalists;
> • Work towards ensuring food security and food sovereignty with those
> whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by denial of these basic human
> rights;
> • Develop collaborations with educators in order to develop participatory
> tools that will provide formal and non-formal educational opportunities,
> especially for non-literate communities;
> • Include the voices of all migrant, internally displaced peoples and
> refugee communities in our community radios and support their
> establishment, ownership and management of their own community radios;
> • Provide localized information about disaster risk reduction;
> • Provide localized emergency news, disaster recovery, relief,
> rehabilitation, and sustainable alternatives as well as create a space for
> trauma healing and reaffirming faith in the face of adversity;
> • Build alliances with grassroots and human rights movements for
> strengthening communities and the community radio movement;
> • Endorse and implement Article 16 of the United Nations Declaration on
> the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which reaffirms the right of Indigenous
> peoples to establish their own community radios in their own languages and
> have access to non-indigenous CRs without discrimination;
> • Promote and encourage gender equality in our communities with programs
> that are fully integrative and supportive of women;
> • Endorse and implement the AMARC gender policy drafted by AMARC-AP WIN
> members, and ratified by AMARC International Board and incorporate gender
> equality in all areas of community radio activity; and
> • Oppose violence against journalists, media practitioners, restrictive
> legislation, or sectarian interests, and work for an atmosphere of peace
> and progress.
>
> We, the representatives of community radio broadcasters, production groups
> and other community media practitioners from Afghanistan, Australia, The
> People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Fiji, The Republic of
> India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos PDR, Malaysia,
> Mexico, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Philippines, Senegal,
> Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, United Kingdom and the
> United States of America agree to uphold this declaration and strive to
> implement the values and aspirations it states.
>
> = = = = = = =
>
> AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the
> community radio movement, with almost 3 000 members and associates in 110
> countries.
>
> Its goal is to support and contribute to the development of community and
> participatory radio along the principals of solidarity and international
> cooperation.
>
> AMARC-Asia Pacific’s 2nd Regional Conference was held in Bagalore, India
> last February 20 to 23, 2010. It was attended by more than 300 delegates
> from 21 countries.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:50:28 +0530
> From: sajan venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> Subject: [cr-india] "May God save Community Radio: Experts"
> To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
> Message-ID:
> <5479ae441002282220o3844e3f2sf030f05512e0da59 at mail.gmail.com>
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> May God save Community Radio: Experts
> February 25, 2010, MM Network, Gaurav Maurya
> http://www.mediamughals.com/News/1/3/Article/4810/May_God_save_Community_Radio:_Experts.htm
>
> 6th and final session of second day of Radio Asia 2010 conference revolved
> around the 'Thrust of Community Radio Development in India'. The session
> started with the negative node on lack of audience's interest on Community
> Radio, as most of the participants didn’t attend this last and final session
> of the day.
>
> 'Different Roles of community radio' was the title which the last session
> carried. The session was chaired by Mr. Louie Tabing (Tambuli Community
> Radio, Phillipines). Whereas, the speakers for this session were R. Sreedhar
> (Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia), Ishwar Singh
> Mehla (Director, BECIL, India), P. Pavitharan (Kothmale Community Radio, Sri
> Lanka), Mike Adams (Rapid Response Unit, UK) and Kalinga Seneviratne (AMIC,
> Singapore).
>
> Starting the session Mr. Sreedhar expressed his grief regarding lack of
> interest from the audience for this session. He said, "Only God can save the
> grass root radio from getting extinct with such a bad response from the
> broadcasting." He in his presentation explained history of Community radios
> in India right from the starting of privatization of radio waves.
>
> Sreedharan also told the audience about the problems that community radio is
> facing in the country. He emphasized on having a viable model for the
> development and requirement of VAS attached with the community radio. He
> said that there is an urgent need of developing a proper model to ascertain
> the listenership of community radios in India. Capacity building in
> programme production, allowing waves on Internet/DTH/IPTV platforms, faster
> clearance of licensing, lack of committed of media professionals, strong
> exit policy were some of the areas on which he showed concern in the
> interest of Community Radio.
>
> "It takes a minimum of 11 months to get a license to start community radio
> channel. This is why only 51 channels are operational even after 7 years of
> announcing the policy." Sreedharan said.
>
> Ishwar Singh Mehla in his presentation guided about 'Economically viable
> models for Community Radio'. He focused on various aspects and conditions
> attached to the set up of CRs. He also explained about the use of semi
> professional equipment in these kinds of channels. Mehla discussed about the
> lowest and working community radio station packages.
>
> The strongest presentation was delivered by Kalinga Seneviratne who provided
> even the minute details about the complexities regarding setting up of CRs.
> Giving example of a successful community radio station in Philippines he
> presented 4 models of CRs.
>
> Following him 4th speaker P. Pavitharan expressed grief on Sri Lankan
> government's disinterest in setting up of CRs in the country. "There are
> more than 50 commercial radio stations in Sri Lanka funded by the govt. But
> it lacks interest towards the upliftment of Community radios in the country.
> At present, there are only 3 CRs operational in the country."
>
> However, the discussion ended on a positive node with 5th speaker Mike Adams
> presentation on setting up of a community radio channel in just 72 hours of
> any disaster. His topic was 'Role of Community Radio in disaster reduction'.
> He said, "5 years ago, Tsunami changed my way of thinking and diverted me to
> take Radio as a passion." He explained the role of CR in times of a natural
> calamity with a sound clip carrying the voice of a survivor lady of Tsunami.
>
> This final session despite of having low attendance of audience, witnessed
> long round of counter questions from the left people. However, many of the
> queries had to be remained unanswered due to the shortage of time.
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> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:03:03 +0530
> From: sajan venniyoor <venniyoor at gmail.com>
> Subject: [cr-india] Radio Asia 2010: Community radio dissected
> To: CR India <cr-india at sarai.net>
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> Radio Asia 2010: Community radio dissected
> Nitin Pandey, 24 Feb 2010, exchange4media
> http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/radio/radionews.asp?Section_id=7&News_id=37336&Tag=2648
>
> Day Two of Radio Asia 2010 delved upon the various dimensions of the radio
> industry, including community radio – the opportunities and challenges for
> community radio in India and the different models are being used all over
> the world. Use of rapid response radio, which can help during the time of
> disasters, was also a point of interest during the discussions.
>
> The session was moderated by Louie Tabing, Tambuli Community Radio, the
> Philippines.
>
> Commenting on the Indian community radio scenario, R Sreedher, Director,
> Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, said, “In the 80s, for the
> first time science and knowledge-based programmes started in the country
> through various local radio stations of All India Radio (AIR). The birth of
> Gyan Vani put forward the concept of the educational radio, although Gyan
> Vani had shown a slow rise. Today, AIR has got enough local radio stations,
> but with time they are dying. There are over 750 applications for community
> radio stations and only 51 stations are operational. Among them, 43 are run
> by educational institutions and eight by NGOs. The target is to have 4,000
> such community radio stations.”
>
> Talking about the reasons of slow growth of community radio in India,
> Sreedher noted that there could be various reasons behind the slow growth,
> and a primary reason was that it took a long time to get a license for this.
> “Also, there is no viable model available for community radio stations.
> Community radio requires authentic radio ratings measurement, and a strong
> exit policy can help in the growth of the community radio,” he noted.
>
> To highlight further on Indian community radio development, Ishwar Singh
> Mehla, Director, BECIL, India, said, “Community radio can be for a limited
> area and community only. The most important thing for a community radio is
> relevant and informative programmes. The right of owning a community radio
> station was given to educational institutions in 2002, but in the year 2006,
> it was extended to NGOs and non-profit organisations. Community radio
> operates in a radius of 5-10 km only. Advertisement of local events and
> banners can be the source of revenue for community radio.”
>
> On how radio could help during times of disasters, Mike Adams, Rapid
> Response Radio Unit, UK, said, “The tsunami changed my life a few years
> back. I realised the role of radio during such a difficult time. During the
> time of such a disaster, radio can help the survivors by spreading
> information regarding shelter, food, medicine or any other help. Rapid
> Response Radio Unit, which carries its radio station in two suitcases,
> serves the affected community. Ideally, any such radio station should start
> functioning within 72 hours, but for that we need to be well prepared before
> any disaster.”
>
> Kalinga Seneviratne, AMIC, Singapore, described his country’s progress in
> the community radio domain. He stated, “In the past one decade, we have seen
> 25 per cent increase in radio stations. Most of the community radios are
> operating on low power and without license. In some provinces, the local
> government runs community radio models. There are mostly three community
> radio models – Tambuli, totally driven by volunteers; Catholic Media
> Networks, Genpeace (which stands for gender and culture of peace); and Radyo
> Natin, the largest network of community radio stations in the Philippines.”
>
> Citing an example of community radio programming content, P Pavitharan,
> Kothmale Community Radio, Sri Lanka, said, “In our state, we ask the
> community to decide on all the programmes that they want to listen.
> Community radio should be interactive and the radio mike should go to the
> community only.”
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