Indian telecom regulator promises paper on Community Radio

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Despite the focus on commercial FM radio, participants at the meet spoke on
the need to make radio broadcasting participatory in nature and harness the
medium for development and empowerment of people. Director, Shruti
Information Centre, Mr Vinod Sena said a disability channel should be
included which focuses exclusively on issues - news, information,
knowledge - for disabled people. Arun Mehta of Radiophony, said the
government should allow very localized but commercial FM radio stations so
that local people can broadcast relevant content in their own languages. He
also said the government should allow a radio operator multiple use of
frequency such as data casting, SMS, paging and not confine it to radio
broadcasts alone. The TRAI officials felt that too many radio stations would
not cause any interference or disturbance as new technologies can help
overcome such problems. They stated clearly that fears of interference
couldn't be taken as a factor for disallowing people to set up radio
stations.

Source:
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/85816/1/