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A post on Radio Bundelkhand, possibly India’s first community radio station to actually go on air! Details of training, studio set up etc are mentioned.

On 6th of August, good news for community radio enthusiasts! No amount of dirty politics can keep from legitimizing low cost indigenous transmitters from Nomad India. With Development Alternatives getting its license, Nomad India becomes the first home grown transmission solution providers to community radio.

At present, there are less than 30 community radio stations on air, and it seems a bit disappointing especially in the context of government officials proclaiming that there will be 4000 stations up and running within a year, when they released the policy in Nov. 2006. Still stranger, all these stations on air today, are …

Radio Active (RA), is the first and only functional community radio station in Bangalore. Housed in Mahaveer Jain college, RA operates currently on 107.8 MHz and radiates its programmes at 100 W. With FM technology, it is accessible to the common woman, and aims to engage its communities with relevant programming on areas like health, …

Mann Vikas Samajik Santha is the non profit arm of the Mann Deshi Bank, based in Maharashtra. We visited the project site in Mhaswad village, which is in Mann Dist, Satara. Its about 200 kilometers from Pune. Now Mhaswad is hard to cateogrize as a village, because its such a bustling place. Plenty of shops, …

AID India has started its community radio initiative in Garhwa, in Palamau, Jharkhand. Set up in 2001, AID started producing community based programmes and airing these over the local All India Radio station in Daltonganj. These programmes are titled Chala Ho Gaon Mein or Going in to the Village, and have attained high popularity in …

TERI is a rather big organisation with over 600 people employed in their many offices across the world and established since 1974. The range of donors is a long list with everyone from the World Bank to the Government of India. The Director General at present is R K Pachauri and the origin can be …

DA was established in 1983 and has been working extensively in the Bundelkhand region in the area of sustainable livelihoods. About a decade or more ago, they established Tarahaat which is the coming together of different units promoting and making use of sustainable methods towards development like alternate fuels, recycling, brick making etc. Tarahaat is …

MYRADA is a non Governmental organisation managing rural development programmes in 3 States of South India – Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. While the objective is to help the poor help themselves, MYRADA achieves this by forming Self Help Affinity Groups (SHGs) and through partnerships with NGOs and other organisations. MYRADA has many resource …

The International Programme for the Development of Communication is a major forum in the UN system designed to develop free and pluralistic media with a global approach to democratic development. The flagship UN project for community radio in India approved by the Bureau of International Council in 2007 is a collaboration between UNESCO and UNDP towards help establish the first seven radio stations in India.