Government Keen To Encourage Community Radio

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Inaugurating the two day workshop on Designing and Enabling Framework for
Community Radio in India, Pawan Chopra, Secretary, Ministry Information and
Broadcasting said that limited spectrum and growing number of players in the
field of broadcasting had to be kept in mind while evolving new policy
initiatives aimed at popularizing community radio. Another issue of concern
for the Government is security as community radio can also be used as a mode
to fan disruptive activities. He said the development paradigm in India has
always placed great importance on mass media as an agent of public service
and social change but pitfalls and constraints have to be born in mind while
encouraging expansion community radio. In his comments, CEO Prasar Bharti
Sh. K.S. Sarma said the expansion of community radio would supplement the
public broadcasters" efforts to reach to the masses and meet their
aspirations. He said public broadcaster can help the prospective community
radio operators with providing technical and infrastructure know-how.

Source:
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=1656