Monday, February 02, 2004

Finally our radio station has started functioning and the radio channel from AU is on air! this has the privilege of being the first of its kind in India...tht too inside an educational university!for a newsitem on the inaugural function,just follow this.somehow we've been into this right from its construction...so its quite natural tht we're attached to it! community radio, unlike other radio channels which concentrate only on entertaining people rather than educating them, is a radio run by and for a set of people - who is referred to as the community - who have no basic education, no access to knowledge and who know nothing about their fundamental rights and their position in the society. this sort of radio can weave into their life and help them in their everyday activities....but this radio was found nowhere in the country and even if found it exists in a sorry state till today! this radio can be used by everybody for voicing out their views and opinions on any issue...there are ample instances to explain how a radio channel can transform the lives of hundreds of people....there was a community somewhere in the state of kerala with rich fertile land, but the people didn't know to utilise it completely and get the maximum out of it.A programme on radio was started targetting the farmers in that area and the radio actually gave them step by step instructions on how to sow the seeds, spray insecticides and even the method of watering them. when the farmers followed the instructions literally, the yield was amazingly high and the quality was at its best, it came to be called 'radio rice'. this is one success story about how a good medium can bridge the divide in this country....wish even our programmes in this radio would help in the upliftment of, if not all, atleast a fraction of the under-developed community...moreover these people are skilled in certail areas where even the educated lot struggle to thrive...this would be a two-way learning process, I feel...

Posted by sree at 2:58:00 pm
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