Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:19:24 +0530
From: Arun Mehta arunlists@softhome.net
Subject: [cr-india] Dharmendra supports community radio
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Four minutes an hour of advertising? Where does that number come from? Maybe we should try to approach these MPs too, if they are so interested in community radio, to help us get a sensible community radio policy.
Arun
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Community radio: MPs tune in to Dharmendra funds plea
ANURADHA RAMAN
Posted online: Monday, November 29, 2004 at 0224 hours IST
NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 28: With the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's track record on community radio plummetting, actor-MP Dharmendra's suggestion that MPs should part with their MPLADS money to give the necessary push is likely to come in handy if the dismal statistics is anything to go by.
After envisaging 1,000 community radio stations in the country three years ago, only one, in Tamil Nadu, is in operation-that too was a political decision taken by the previous NDA Government.
Perhaps it was only befitting that BJP MP and actor Dharmendra pointed out that if MPs could part with their MPLADS money-more specifically, if each MP could fund at least two Community Radio Stations-community radio would bloom. Each MP gets Rs 2 crore annually.
As per the admission of the ministry, a total of 60 applications had been received, of which 38 eligible applications had been sent to the other concerned ministries for clearance. Letters of intent had been signed in 26 cases and licence agreements in 10 cases.
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Addressing the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministries of Information and Broadcasting, and Culture, I&B Minister Jaipal Reddy said community radio has socio-economic and cultural relevance, as it caters to the information and entertainment needs of small communities and the programmes have local flavour.
Other parliamentary members who attended the meeting, sources said, agreed on the usefulness of community radios, but expressed concern on the funding ability of the community/organisations in the remote rural areas since they are run on a no-profit basis. Also, the restriction of advertisement time-four minutes to an hour leaves little room for generating funds to run the station.
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