[cr-india] {CRF India} Re: Centre sends right signal to the Cuddalore’s flood-affected

[r.sreedher at gmail.com]

Thank you . Arti . Another post that I sent has been censored by the moderator . In the previous cases the application was mentioning Unesco as a partner. The Govt of india whether UPA or NDA has resorted to not to take foreign help including UN agencies during natural calamities starting from the Bhuj earthquake , Tsunami etc .

This time the application is from an Indian , the equipment is from an Indian company . India is not poor enough to get assistance for getting a transmitter or to get training from a foreign agency to run a radio station . Crowd funding can also be resorted to instead of getting assistance from international agencies and then send valuable data to them .

I have already written to Nelson that once I come back to india will offer my fullest cooperation in running the station as well as train all 30 Cr stations in Tamilnadu and Pondicherry .

Sreedher 

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> On 11-Dec-2015, at 6:26 AM, Arti Jaiman <arti at trfindia.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Dr Sreedher,
> I completely agree with you that the cause is greater than the individual. In an age where everyone is more concerned with their own neck of the woods it is such a welcome surprise for me to see the Emergency radio station up and running in such a short time with people across states working frantically to make it happen. We all see this as a historic moment to demonstrate the power of radio in crisis. 
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> You know the government's policies better. Perhaps it is the norm for the government to hand out licenses in times of disaster. I have yet to see it happen, in the case of the Kosi floods, the annual Assam floods or even the Mumbai floods. I am sure the requests were sent out then too.
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> About CRF, I agree we need to communicate better among ourselves and to our small family of members. Especially since we all share the passion for radio, and hopefully not for scoring points. 
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> In the days ahead, I am sure the Cuddalore station as well as Anna Radio can use your guidance and help in reaching out to citizens in their footprint as they get their lives back on track. Since you are so well networked with the Tamil Nadu stations perhaps you can help them arrive at a disaster preparedness plan for future calamities. 
> 
> Warm regards
> 
> Arti
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> Sent from a phone. Please ignore typos.
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> On Thu, 10 Dec, 2015 at 17:46, sreedher ramamurthy
> <r.sreedher at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Govt of India whether it is UPA or NDA has taken a policy decision that it will not encourage foreign aid during national calamities. It is the army, navy, airforce, ndrf which manages these calamities.
> 
> When people wanted to set up a CR station with UNESCO assistance, the govt did not give permission. But when an Indian organization offers to run a station with an Indian company giving technical support,  the approval was given r fast. In fact such temporary licenses are known in Cr sector , first Anna university, then at Guwahati and later at Port Blair.  WPC has been giving temporary licenses. It is a very simple procedure. It hurts when foreign donors or organizations poke their nose.
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> sreedher
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> Dr. R. Sreedher
> Media expert and Community Radio Practitioner
> Emeritus Professor Apeejay Stya University, Sohna India
> B 1/ 43 Hauz Khas
> New Delhi 110016
> Phone: +91 9810778459
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>> On 10 December 2015 at 07:11, sreedher ramamurthy <r.sreedher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Don't claim astronomical credits to CR Forum. It is to the credit of Tamilnadu government, and Nelson who was interested in community radio right from 2004 and to the WPC. At the most CR forum might have played a supplementary role. This is what irritates people. The cause is more important than the person.  What is the difference between amma, AIDMK, Kalignar DMK , BJP , Congress and CRF ? Are we taking the same path as politicians by pasting stickers for some donations given by unknown people? What is the difference between pasting amma stickers and claiming it as her effort, and CRF claiming it as its success. Where is CRF all these days? What is the legal standing of CRF? I am a member and i don't know whether any General body meeting was ever held for the past three days? What are its activities? Have they submitted their mandatory reports like annual report and financial statement to the Registrar of Societies? When it is now illegal entity and claiming its success is a mockery of the whole system. 
>> 
>> Dr. R. Sreedher
>> Media expert and Community Radio Practitioner
>> Emeritus Professor Apeejay Stya University, Sohna India
>> B 1/ 43 Hauz Khas
>> New Delhi 110016
>> Phone: +91 9810778459
>> 
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>>> On 10 December 2015 at 03:17, Arti Jaiman <arti at trfindia.org> wrote:
>>> An achievement CR Forum and the entire CR sector should be proud of. 
>>> 
>>> More power to radio.
>>> 
>>> Arti
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from a phone. Please ignore typos.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 10 Dec, 2015 at 12:16, Sajan Venniyoor
>>> <venniyoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [Thanks to Jean Parker for this link]
>>>> Centre sends right signal to the Cuddalore’s flood-affected
>>>> 
>>>> Makeshift radio station set up in Cuddalore within five days of receiving SOS from Chennai.
>>>> 
>>>> As the focus shifts to relief and rehabilitation in rain-ravaged Chennai, it is perhaps the first time that the Central government has helped facilitate the setting up of an emergency community radio station within five days of receiving an SOS, at Cuddalore, 180 km away.
>>>> 
>>>> 107.8MHz, offering listeners’ services related to relief in this flood-affected town, became operational at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The Hindu had reported on Tuesday how thousands of residents have been cut off by waters.
>>>> 
>>>> The setting up of the radio station once again brings into sharp focus the need for communication services to be set as part of emergency protocol which in this case, was expedited due to some quick thinking by the Ministry of Communication and Technology’s Wireless Planning and Coordination Unit. Usually, the decision of awarding frequencies to community radio is a process that can take days to months.
>>>> 
>>>> In the past, requests for emergency radio services have been made during the Kosi flood in 2008 and the rains that wreaked devastation in Uttarakhand two years ago, for setting up radio stations on a temporary basis to address local issues and help in relief.
>>>> 
>>>> The district administration had underlined the importance of community radio in emergency situations. The National Disaster Management Authority was also part of the discussions. But nothing came of it.
>>>> 
>>>> Team effort
>>>> 
>>>> This time round, as a submerged Chennai sent an SOS, processes for setting a radio station worked fast. The Broadcasting Engineering Consultants India Ltd. (BECIL), a public sector enterprise which provides consultancy services to the entire gamut of radio and television services, moved in with expertise after a local NGO Saranalayalam sounded them out on December 4.
>>>> 
>>>> The Tamil Nadu government gave the permission to the NGO after which the Community Radio Forum initiated the process of seeking a frequency which was given on December 5 by the Telecom Ministry. Mr. John Nelson dropped a mail to the senior deputy wireless administrator in the Ministry at 11 pm which was responded to by 1 am the following day.
>>>> 
>>>> BECIL moved its transmitter by road from Benagaluru, and on Tuesday night, the process of setting up a radio station began literally at 12.30 pm in the Cuddalore Collector’s office where basic Internet and telephone services were provided.
>>>> 
>>>> With the help of the Public Works Department, materials like lightning arrester were put in place. The antenna came up at 10 pm and test transmission started soon.
>>>> 
>>>> “The Collector wants us to continue our services 24 hours a day till relief reaches everyone,” Mr. Nelson, who is running the radio now, said from Cuddalore.
>>>> 
>>>> A 20-second announcement is played over and over on 107.8 FM. The-set up, Mr. Nelson said, is extremely basic but sufficient to start with.
>>>> 
>>>> The radio station is in the process of building a partition to separate the recording place from the broadcasting studio and work is on to fix the antenna.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/centre-sends-right-signal-to-the-cuddalores-floodaffected/article7967369.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
>>>> 
>>>> jean
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