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		<title>No news is bad news &#8211; Ramnath Bhat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[( This article appeared in the Op-ed section of The Hindu, 22nd Feb 2013.) The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) organised the 3rd National Community Radio Sammelan from February 9 to 11 to celebrate a decade of community radio. The celebrations were cut short when Secretary to MoIB Uday Kumar Varma confirmed that community ...]]></description>
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		<title>Changes in the Television sector</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears that while the Ministry of Communication and IT has been busy deciding on auctioning spectrum, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been keeping itself busy with some changes in the television sector. Here are a few samples: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has amended the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act 1995, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Fairness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in the Web Exclusive section of EPW, Vol XLVII, No.40, on October 6, 2012. You can read it here Although free speech can be exercised in myriad ways, the establishment of airwaves as public property can and did go a long way in furthering the right to free speech. Frank La ...]]></description>
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		<title>Spectrum, Public Interest and Policy Making</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article first appeared in the Millenium Post on 8th October 2012. You can read it here In March 2012, the Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) wing of the Ministry of Communications and IT (MoCIT) released an order which in effect, hiked spectrum fees for community radio more than 400 per cent. Until then, community ...]]></description>
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		<title>Comments on Draft Copyright Rules 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given below is the full text of the comments on the draft Copyright Rules 2012. This letter was sent to the Registrar of Copyright, Shri. G. R Raghavender on behalf of the Community Radio Forum of India. Thanks to Monica James from Maraa and Lawrence Liang from Alternative Law Forum, for preparing this note. Dear ...]]></description>
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		<title>UNESCO Publication on Community Radio in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maraa and Nomad India Network, in partnership with UNESCO, implemented the International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC), wherein both partner organizations worked with various community radio stations across the width and breadth of the country, setting up technical infrastructure and building capacities related to content development, presentation, management, sustainability etc. As part of this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Maraa Digital Media Workshop Application Form</title>
		<link>http://maraa.in/maraa-digital-media-workshop-application-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[maraa is happy to open call for applications to the workshop titled &#8220;Digital Media and Community Radio: Opportunities and Challenges&#8221; on the 11th and 12th of September in New Delhi. This workshop is supported by Ford Foundation, Delhi. Click here for a tentative Schedule for the workshop. Venue to be confirmed shortly. Project Background Since the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Reduced Channel Spacing for FM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ram</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 8th of December, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), published a consultation paper titled &#8220;Issues Related to prescribing Minimum Channel Spacing, within a License Service Area, in FM Radio Sector of India&#8220;. The title is self-explanatory, and there are a few interesting implications for radio in there. Firstly, what is channel spacing? ...]]></description>
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		<title>Community Radio Workshop at Bangkok</title>
		<link>http://maraa.in/community-radio-workshop-at-bangkok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ram</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Asia Pacific board, met in Bangalore in 2010, and one of the outcomes of that regional meeting was the need for further applied and in-depth capacity building. As a result of that initiative, AMARC AP organized the first ever capacity building forum which was held in Bangkok ...]]></description>
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		<title>Community Radio and the Digital</title>
		<link>http://maraa.in/community-radio-and-the-digital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ram</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bundelkhand]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://maraa.in/?p=1546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Community Radio is mostly an analogue platform in India. Licenses are given by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, to broadcast in the FM band of the electromagnetic spectrum (88-108 MHz). Today there are more than 150 operational community radio stations in the country. Assuming each radio station reaches an average of 150,000 people, the ...]]></description>
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