[cr-india] Monitoring of CR stations

Tue May 19 07:16:36 CDT 2015

Dear Arti

I am  happy that you have responded  and found some points of agreement. In
your mail , you had expresed difficulty in accessing internet in Gurgaon
and in the same mail had also that you are already streaming your programme
24 x 7 on the net. I am finding it difficult to comprehend

Moreover, my suggestion that the CR association may form a Standards Forum
and a self supporting Complaints and Grievance set up has found some form
of acceptance from you

I do hope that CRF,CRA and the new CR federation sit together and form such
a Forum under the chairmanship of an eminent person just like what the TV
channels are doing. I came to know from the JS that the ministry will
support such a set up.

I am also saddened to see the plight of some of the CR stations and hence
my mail. I do resist active participation in the CR sector but could not
control my thoughts

regards

sreedher

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*

On 19 May 2015 at 11:53, Arti Jaiman <arti at trfindia.org> wrote:

> Dear Dr Sreedher,
> I am deeply saddened and disappointed to read your letter to the Ministry
> of Information and Broadcasting. As a person who "originally launched the
> first campus based community radio station in India in 2004, and as a
> person who as Director of CEMCA and other organisations facilitated the
> launch of dozens of CR stations in the country" (your words, not mine) you
> may end up presiding over the demise of community radio in India. For you
> to summarily rubbish the work of most community radio practitioners and
> dismiss challenges of connectivity is to assume that you know something
> about India's internet connectivity that we, who work day in and day out in
> the field, somehow are unaware of.
>
> Forget about stations as far afield as Uttarakhand and the hinterlands of
> Madhya Pradesh, our station operates out of Gurgaon, the self-proclaimed
> Cyber city of India, where it would be hard put for us to explain why an
> Airtel fixed line broadband connection inside "Electronic City" takes 17
> hours to upload a day's broadcast of data. If you think I am cooking this
> up, please feel free to come over to our studio and try it for yourself.
>
> As for stations downloading DAVP ads, yes, stations will use dongles and
> cyber cafes to download but only because it is worth spending Rs 100 on
> downloading a release order and a creative for an ad worth Rs 50,000. The
> same cannot be held true tasking a small CR team with uploading data on a
> daily basis when that job lies with the Ministry.
>
> I do not know of a single CR station that objects to MIB or any other
> government agency setting up off air-monitoring systems either within the
> station premises or in the listening area of the CRS at the ministry's
> cost, for which our generous finance minister cum I&B minister has
> announced a budget of Rs 10 crores. As you suggest, MIB can pick up our
> streaming broadcast (which they have not done despite stations like ours
> doing streaming broadcast). I would suggest instead that MIB pushes for
> funds from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to be used to
> provide last mile connectivity to CR stations (which is within the mandate
> of USOF anyway). This connection, funded by MIB, can be used for streaming,
> which also allows for stations to listen to each other and build a sense of
> a CR listening community.
>
> If television channels in India, which broadcast a pile of rubbish most of
> the time, and commercial FM channels which on a daily basis flout the
> supposed limit on ads during broadcast, can have self regulating bodies and
> be accepted as such by MIB, I don't understand why a different set of
> standards are being applied to CR. What stops a CRS member-driven body like
> CRA or the new one I've heard of FCRS, from setting up their own complaint
> system?
>
> Within a larger context of free speech and the right of a community to
> broadcast what is most important to them, within the provisions of the All
> India Radio Broadcasting code, I would only read the latest order from MIB
> as a way of passing the buck. Given how much support you have given to
> stations like ours when we were setting up, I am very saddened to see your
> letter.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Arti Jaiman
>
>
>
>
>
> Arti Jaiman
>
> Station Director : Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio Station 107.8 MHz FM
> email: arti at trfindia.org
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>
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> station in the National Capital Region of Delhi. Since 2009, we have been
> broadcasting 22X7, in Hindi and Haryanvi, with a team of community
> reporters who generate community content with community participation.
>
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> V.S.K. Venkatachalapathy <vskvenkatachalapathy at yahoo.com>; jkss <
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> puduvaivaani at gmail.com>; "puduvaivaani at pondiuni.edu.in" <
> puduvaivaani at pondiuni.edu.in>; "aaschead at achariya.in" <
> aaschead at achariya.in>; ravi ravi <uraikavi at yahoo.com>; "
> coordinator at achariya.in" <coordinator at achariya.in>;
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> Salila Bhansali <salilabhansali at hotmail.com>; Dr D P Singh <
> drdp91 at gmail.com>; Rakesh Singh <eminentcampus at gmail.com>;
> inashastri at banasthali.ac.in; Lokesh Sharma <sharmaislokesh3 at gmail.com>;
> Lokesh Sharma <lokesh_media at yahoo.co.in>; inashastri at yahoo.com; "
> radiobanasthali at gmail.com" <radiobanasthali at gmail.com>; yash Patil <
> yash108 at gmail.com>; "info at radiomadhuban.in" <info at radiomadhuban.in>;
> Ashok Singh Sunhal <assunhal at gmail.com>; Community Radio Tilonia <
> tilonia.radio at gmail.com>; emmrcchennai at annauniv.edu; marcus alagar <
> malagar at gmail.com>; arul aram <arulram at yahoo.com>; Christy Leema <
> christyleema at gmail.com>; helpdesk at loyolacollege.edu;
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> mopvcfw at eth.net" <mopvcfw at eth.net>; usharavi62 <usharavi62 at gmail.com>;
> principal at psgtech.ac.in; "psgcrs at psgtech.ac.in" <psgcrs at psgtech.ac.in>; "
> psgfm at psgtech.ac.in" <psgfm at psgtech.ac.in>; "dme at tnau.ac.in" <
> dme at tnau.ac.in>; "contact at ksrcas.edu" <contact at ksrcas.edu>; Venkatachalam
> Rajendran Dr <veerajendran at gmail.com>; ksr community radio <
> ksrcr904 at gmail.com>; S.KUPPUSAMY <sksamys at yahoo.com>; Correspondent
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> info at peacetrust.in>; "pasumaifm at hotmail.com" <pasumaifm at hotmail.com>;
> pardmadurai at hotmail.com; James Rajasekaran.E <pardvaanoli at gmail.com>;
> Thangaraj K. <kt at kongu.ac.in>; kongucr kongucr <kongucr at gmail.com>; "
> kongucrs at kongu.ac.in" <kongucrs at kongu.ac.in>; hdproject at gmail.com;
> dir_rgniyd at vsnl.net; "crs at rgniyd.gov.in" <crs at rgniyd.gov.in>; "
> jsudhanandhen at yahoo.com" <jsudhanandhen at yahoo.com>; "To:
> nivh at sancharnet.in, neotechtimes at gmail.com, sunilpalaskar at gmail.com,
> lkrishnamurthy at djvk.org, emmrcabadad1 at bsnl.in, sjcc.chry at gmail.com,
> vanya at prakashanyahoo.co.in, kvkbaramati at yahoo.com, ajinkya at dypatil.com,
> vishwasjthakur at gmail.com, email_aid at rediffmail.com, aid_bbsr at yahoo.in,
> esec at erode-sengunthar.ac.in, wada1988 at yahoo.com, drbhvnlakshmi at gmail.com,
> itshrao at gmail.com, zahedfarooqui at yahoo.com, bolhyd90.4 at gmail.com,
> vibhishanasarma2008 at yahoo.co.in, info at kmit.in, asthana222 at gmail.com,
> kandarpagu at gmail.com, ankurandutta at gmail.com, kkh_sou at yahoo.com,
> info at iibmpatna.com, uksingh at zhi.org.in, alkn.society at gmail.com,
> snehingo at rediffmail.com, vivekfm at gmail.com, puradio at gmail.com,
> archanarsingh at gmail.com, surendratuteja at gmail.com, dufm90.4 at gmail.com,
> ducr90.4 at gmail.com, c" <esec at erode-sengunthar.ac.in>; "
> isehar_9307 at yahoo.co.in" <isehar_9307 at yahoo.co.in>; Aditanar College <
> aditanarcollege at yahoo.co.in>; viscom_hcc at yahoo.co.in; winreach <
> winreach at yahoo.co.in>; SHIRLEY DEEPAK <winreach at gmail.com>;
> delaz02 at yahoo.co.in; "holycross_communityradio at yahoo.com" <
> holycross_communityradio at yahoo.com>; dhanfoundation_tn at airtelbroadband.in;
> Naguveer Prakash <naguveerprakash at gmail.com>; Kalanjiam Vanoli <
> kalanjiamvanoli at gmail.com>; CCPMC Venkanna B. Principal AECS-2 <
> aecskal2 at yahoo.co.in>; Publisher Avl <rlp at dinamalar.in>; slcs at slcs.in;
> Admin Keystone <kf at keystone-foundation.org>; Registrar PMU <
> registrar at pmu.edu>; "pmu at pmu.edu" <pmu at pmu.edu>; GANDHI MATHI <
> ramlak_2000 at yahoo.com>; "periyarcr at yahoo.in" <periyarcr at yahoo.in>;
> Muthukumarasamy Balasundram <vayalagavanoli at gmail.com>; Divyasri Rathnam <
> divyarathnam at gmail.com>; "srmcr90.4 at gmail.com" <srmcr90.4 at gmail.com>; "
> info at rathinamcollege.com" <info at rathinamcollege.com>;
> jeriselvi at yahoo.co.in; Jeevanandham Rajendran <jeevanalamdana at gmail.com>;
> Nalamdana Chennai <nalamdana at gmail.com>; Ssm Community Radio Station <
> crs at ssmce.ac.in>; "teripgc at rediffmail.com" <teripgc at rediffmail.com>;
> Kisan Seva Sansthan <kss.org at gmail.com>; vatsalam at iitk.ac.in;
> 90.4 at iitk.ac.in; V Kurian <vkurian at cmseducation.org>; Raj Kumar Singh CMS
> Radio LKO <rksingh34 at rediffmail.com>; 16sqcc at sancharnet.in; "
> mfhbeg.jamia at gmail.com" <mfhbeg.jamia at gmail.com>; Subhi Srivastava <
> sriv.seema at gmail.com>; "info at voiceofazamgarh.com" <
> info at voiceofazamgarh.com>; "info at salaamnamaste.in" <info at salaamnamaste.in>;
> stationhead at salaamnamaste.in; BARSHA CHABARIA <vchabaria at gmail.com>;
> Krishna Singh <krishna.singh1976 at gmail.com>; spraveen681 at gmail.com; "<
> info at radionoida.fm>" <info at radionoida.fm>; Braham Prakash <
> brahamydv at gmail.com>; "neha22_jha at yahoo.co.in" <neha22_jha at yahoo.co.in>;
> info at sunbeamschool.com; vijay gopal <taaurean at yahoo.com>; "
> director_radio at iimtindia.net" <director_radio at iimtindia.net>; Hint radio <
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> Srivastava <lalitlokvani at gmail.com>; sunder_lal2 at rediffmail.com; Girija
> Shanker Sharma <girijashankers at gmail.com>; girija sharma <
> girijashanker at hotmail.com>; Sanjeev Singh <agrakiawaz at gmail.com>;
> registrardbrau at ac.in; dir_sfmc at shiats.edu.in; sfmcindia <
> sfmcindia at yahoo.co.in>; Jawed Akhter <jawedaftab at gmail.com>; "
> radioadan90.4crs at yahoo.com" <radioadan90.4crs at yahoo.com>;
> registrar at aaidu.org; Ronnie Dargan <rkdargan at amity.edu>; Jitendra Sharma <
> jitendra at sanskrati.in>; "Ashoksharma8332 at yahoo.com" <
> Ashoksharma8332 at yahoo.com>; AAP KI AWAZ CRS <aapkiawazfm at gmail.com>;
> info at 908fm.com; mailbox at teri.res.in; Pratim <
> pratim at keystone-foundation.org>; Kumaon Vani <kumaonvani at gmail.com>;
> deanhsc1 at gmail.com; pantnagar janvani <pantnagar_janvani at rediffmail.com>;
> "radiokhushi at yahoo.in" <radiokhushi at yahoo.in>;
> adminofficer at gnfcssociety.com; Rajendra Singh Negi <negihcr at gmail.com>;
> Henvalvani Chamba <henvalvanicr at gmail.com>; "To: nivh at sancharnet.in,
> neotechtimes at gmail.com, sunilpalaskar at gmail.com, lkrishnamurthy at djvk.org,
> emmrcabadad1 at bsnl.in, sjcc.chry at gmail.com, vanya at prakashanyahoo.co.in,
> kvkbaramati at yahoo.com, ajinkya at dypatil.com, vishwasjthakur at gmail.com,
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> wada1988 at yahoo.com, drbhvnlakshmi at gmail.com, itshrao at gmail.com,
> zahedfarooqui at yahoo.com, bolhyd90.4 at gmail.com,
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> kandarpagu at gmail.com, ankurandutta at gmail.com, kkh_sou at yahoo.com,
> info at iibmpatna.com, uksingh at zhi.org.in, alkn.society at gmail.com,
> snehingo at rediffmail.com, vivekfm at gmail.com, puradio at gmail.com,
> archanarsingh at gmail.com, surendratuteja at gmail.com, dufm90.4 at gmail.com,
> ducr90.4 at gmail.com, c" <nivh at sancharnet.in>; SRFTI CommunityRadio <
> srfticommunityradio at gmail.com>; Radio JU <radioju at gmail.com>; "To:
> nivh at sancharnet.in, neotechtimes at gmail.com, sunilpalaskar at gmail.com,
> lkrishnamurthy at djvk.org, emmrcabadad1 at bsnl.in, sjcc.chry at gmail.com,
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> Mishra <smishra at col.org>; Jayalakshmi Chittoor <jchittoor at gmail.com>;
> Rukmini Vemraju <rvemraju at gmail.com>; Stalin K <stalink123 at gmail.com>;
> Osama Manzar <osama at defindia.net>; osama manzar <osamam at gmail.com>;
> "Aggarwal, Ravina" <R.Aggarwal at fordfoundation.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 19 May 2015 8:58 AM
> *Subject:* Monitoring of CR stations
>
> Dear Rejimon
>
> I am writing this with reference to news items published in various
> newspapers on 1st May and 2nd My 2015 regarding monitring of the contents
> of CR stations.
>
> As a person who originally launched the first campus based community radio
> station in India in 2004, and as a person who as Director of CEMCA and
> other organisations facilitated the launch of dozens of CR stations in the
> country would like to offer the following views
>
> 1. I strongly feel that there must be some type of monitoring needed for
> CR stations
> 2.  India is the one of the few countries which does not have a strong
> powerful media regulator
> 3. Indian Media by and large works on a self developed  code of conduct
> and grievance redressal mechanism
> 4.  We may have to think of a similar mechanism like the Private TV
> channels by asking the associations to form voluntarily  the Community
> Radio Regulatory Authority .
> 5. But such a mechanism will take a while and does not preclude them from
> accepting some mechanism for monitoring
>
>
> I suggest
>
> 1. CR stations might live stream or upload their programmes on a website
> of their choice and send the URL to you. I donot subscribe to the view that
> there CR stations which does not have broadband internet connectivity. May
> be there are a handful of them.  But the moment they get registered with
> DAVP, all advertisements are relesed through the net only. The same
> stations do take effort in downloading the advertisements and broadcast the
> same. Also most of the commnications from the ministry are sent by email
> only
>
> 2. They may upload their daily programmes on EDAA.in (which incidentally
> was promoted by me during my days at CEMCA). They may go to a cyber cafe at
> the nearby town and upload the same. The cost of hiring a PC in a cyber
> cafe is Rs 10 for 30 mts in most parts of the country and hence stations
> can afford Rs 300 per month. Incidentaly EDAA is supported by the
> ministry.  Cyber Cafes do have bandwidth for uploading and I have found
> that it hardly takes 5 mts for uploading 4 hrs of MP3 programme on a 2 mbps
> normal BSNL connectivity.
>
> 3 I am associated with a website called i-radiolive.com which is run by
> another non profit foundation in which more than 20 institutions as remote
> as Mukteswar are daily uploading their programmes. Of course this site is a
> paid one and is also available on android and windows phones throuh an app
>
> 4. Of course there is MUNCH which was promoted by Ford Foundation.
>
> 5.Hence there are various ways by which the CR stations could share their
> contents and need not necessarily send CDs or use email
>
>
> Since I have visited more than 120 CR stations and continue to visit at
> least two stations per week, i have observed the following. These are
> purely my views and are subject to correction
>
> 1. At least 20 percent of operational radio stations do not function
> 2 An equal number broadcasts occasionally or 2 hours per day
> 3. Some stations thrive only on Bollywoood music all 24 hrs and work like
> a commercial FM
> 4. Some of the contents broadcast by some stations do not conform to AIR
> code
> 5.  One station broadcasts the same programme 24 x 7 all 365 days
> 6. Some stations do air Religious programmes ( all religions for that
> matter) which might touch the limit of secularism
> 7. Some stations broadcast advertisements for more than the time
> stipulated and I can quote examples of stations earning more than 50 lakhs
> to 1.5 crores per annum
> 8. Some stations broadcast only educational content
> 9. Somestations broadcast programmes of only one type and to only a
> particular group of audience
> 10. Some stations are very good at projecting theselves and are visible
> everywhere
> 11. Most of the stations, i repeat , do not have a working advisory
> committee
> 12. Most stations are unaware of the documentation like Quarterly plan,
> monthly plan daily cue sheets and most important a log sheet
> 13. Many of them depend upon some sort of logger supplied by some free
> source which were not updated due to finances
> 14.  There are stations whose GOPA has expired a few years back and not
> yet renewed
>
> In these circumstances an online mechanism , supported finanically by the
> ministry, is the only solution.  The National knowledge network will be
> linking almost all Panchayats if not this year next year and god
> connectivity will become a reality.
>
> Hope the ministry will give thoughts in this direction
>
> regards
>
> sreedher
>
> 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 <9810778459>*
>
>
>
> On 11 December 2013 at 18:11, Supriya Sahu <supriyasahujs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> *Dear All,*
>
> I am happy to announce the 3rd National Community Radio Awards. I request
> you all to participate actively and spread the word around so that everyone
> could participate within the eligibility criteria. You may recall that in
> the last Sammelan there was a consensus that the entries should be judged
> by a peer group. You would be happy to know that this year the Jury has
> only peers apart from the Chairman i.e. Mr B. Brahma, the Economic Adviser
> in the Ministry. I would very soon send you the names of the Jury members.
> Please find the details attached with this letter.
>
> Last date for sending nominations for the Award is 10th January 2014.
>
> Wishing you all the best.
>
> Regards and Best Wishes
>
> *Supriya Sahu *
> Joint Secretary
> Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
> Government of India
>
>
>
>
>
>
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