[cr-india] WPC Issues

[geeta seshu]

why should that be the case? because the name 'michelle' donates a religion
and 'jagdish' doesn't? I find this proposition ridiculous. It must be
strongly contested.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:11 PM, nehul jagdish <nehulj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michelle,
>
> I think your license was rejected, because the government fears that your
> interest in tribal region shows your clear motive, where you can use the
> community radio for conversion purpose.
>
> Kindly explain the govt that you are not going to use it for any religious
> activites.
>
> Jagdish Kumar
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Michelle Chawla <
> michelle at tamarindtree.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Tamarind Tree a non profit located in Dahanu, Maharashtra has applied
>> for a CR license in May 2011. Our Home Ministry check was completed in
>> June.
>>
>> However on follow up with the MIB in June, we were told that the WPC has
>> rejected our application on grounds of non availability of frequencies!
>> Dahanu is located 150 kms north of Mumbai and is an entirely
>> rural-tribal region, declared a schedule  area. MIB mentioned that there
>> may be several private radio stations operating in our area. We
>> clarified that there are none -- and unlikely to come up soon in this
>> tribal belt. We were asked to recheck our geo-coordinates and see if
>> there was some mistake. We did that and informed MIB that there was
>> nothing wrong with the coordinates.
>>
>> Post this interaction, we were told that there are several such
>> applications pending and the WPC is reconsidering them.
>>
>> I called Mr Grewal today and he mentioned that they are working with the
>> WPC and asking them to review their policy of allocation of
>> frequencies.
>>
>> However, It seems like its going to be a long wait...
>>
>> It would be good if the CRF could make a case for us and groups like
>> ours to the MIB on the ridiculousness of this claim of frequency
>> availability?
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michelle
>>
>> Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to
>> www.crforum.in
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jagdish
>
> Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to
> www.crforum.in
>
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