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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Government of India Community Radio Celebrating a Decade of People’s Voices Compendium 2013 Researched and Edited by OneWorld Foundation India Advisory Board OneWorld Foundation India Designed and Printed by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Artech Media Services P. Ltd Editor Supriya Sahu, IAS Rajiv Tikoo Published by OneWorld Foundation India on behalf of the Joint Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of Project Editor India K.S. Rejimon, ISS Bijoy Patro Director OneWorld Foundation India Project Team C-1/3 Safdarjung Development Area Inderjeet Grewal Satish Nagaraji, Tej Prakash and Rashmi Singh New Delhi - 110 016 Deputy Director http://www.oneworld.net.in Research and Editorial [email protected] Team at CRS Cell Abdul Muheet Chaudhary, Aditi Dayal, Anubha Shukla, Ashok Kumar, Bhavya Goswami, Bushra Ahmed, Manju Khurana, Rahul Kumar, Sapna Kedia and Sridhar Raman Technology and Production Bhairab Giri Goswami, Dinesh Singh, Jyoti Singh, Ghanshyam, Ravi Kumar, Subhendu Kumar Giri and Vivek Nayan DISCLAIMER The compendium of functional Community Radio Stations provides information in summary The opinions and claims of third parties set out in this compendium are not necessarily form and is meant for quick reference and general guidance. While the Publisher and Editors opinions of OneWorld Foundation India and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting or have taken maximum care in preparing the compendium, they make no representation or any of their affiliated organisations. warranties with respect to the accuracy or the completeness of any information. Neither (cc) Attribution – Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Editors nor Publisher can accept the responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or Copyright: You are free to share — (copy, distribute and transmit this work); and adapt the refraining from action as a result of any material in this publication. The information work under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor summarised in this publication is solely based on the information provided by the (OneWorld Foundation India and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting) or Authors (but representatives of stations concerned. The information accessed through quick response (QR) code may vary from the information not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial — you may not use this work for commercial purposes. provided in the compendium as information on web can be updated by the station Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting concerned. work only under the same or similar license to this one. Views and opinions expressed by different authors are personal. They do not necessarily Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. reflect the views of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, and The author's moral rights are retained. OneWorld Foundation India (OneWorld). Abbreviations and Acronyms AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters GRINS Grameen Radio Inter-Networking System BECIL Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd. KVK Krishi Vigyan Kendra CCFC Community Radio Facilitation Center LOI Letter of Intent CEMCA Commonwealth Educational Media Center for Asia MOCIT Ministry of Communications and Information Technology CR Cell Community Radio Cell, MOIB MOIB Ministry of Information and Broadcasting CRMC Community Radio Management Committee OWSA OneWorld South Asia CR Community Radio WPC Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing CRS Community Radio Station WOL Wireless Operating License CSR Corporate Social Responsibility SFWHN Science for Women's Health and Nutrition DAVP Directorate of Audio-Visual Publicity UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund DST Department of Science and Technology UNDP United Nations Development Programme EDAA EK duniya anEK awaaz UNFPA United Nations Population Fund GOPA Grant of Permission Agreement UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural GOI Government of India Organization How to use QR Code? Quick Response Codes, or the QR Code is a special feature of this year's Community Radio Compendium. This a unique code, somewhat similar to a barcode, that will make your station's profile information dynamic – i.e. QR will help people seeking information on your Community Radio Station get the most updated details and information via the web. How does one access information encoded in the use the QR Code? Once you scan the QR code given in the compendium, it will open the Community Radio Station's micro-site on EK duniya anEK awaaz (www.edaa.in) – which is an audio and content exchange platform for Community Radio Stations. The information provided on the micro-site can be updated by the station from time-to-time. In addition to this, your station's profile will remain available to you on your mobile – just a touch away. If you have a smartphone, you can use these codes quite easily. All you have to do is download a QR code scanning app from your device's app store, open it and use it to take a picture of the code. It will decode the QR code and then do the action the QR code is asking you to do, i.e. open your station's page on EDAA. Here is a list of some suggested QR code scanners for each of the major mobile operating systems with direct download links. Android – Google Goggles, use play store to download Blackberry – Free QR Code Scanner Pro iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) – Google Goggles available on iTunes Windows Phone – QR Code Reader MeeGo – MeeScan Symbian – BeeTag, use Ovi Store to download Once you have downloaded the app, simply open it on your phone which should come up with a scan option. You will get an image, as if you were seeing it through your mobile's camera. All you need to do is to simply aim at a QR Code and scan. Once scanned, just click on the link that pops up and then browse and share your station's profile! FOREWORD Community questions, radio answers Supriya Sahu Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India. COMMUNICATION IS central to the development goals for health, nutrition, education etc. Since the success of development and broadcast is in the local language, people are able to relate to it democracy. Community Radio (CR) is a instantly. CR stations could also be a repository of local folk songs and c r u c i a l c o m m u n i c a t i o n t o o l culture as the local community of the concerned CR station could particularly in communities where relate to it instantly. most people can neither read nor Right to communication is something that communities are write. It is also an extraordinary and discovering through community radio. People have so far been invisible medium to give voice to the treated as receivers of information. Current mediums have not been voiceless as it provides an opportunity participatory. Through CR people have also started to participate in to the community to speak about the development process. Communities are discovering that they issues concerning their lives. CR has could also act as valuable information providers to their own the potential to bring significant positive change in the social fabric of community and government. the local community. The unique position of CR stations as an instrument of positive The traditional broadcast space in India has been dotted with social change makes it an ideal tool for community empowerment. mediums, which have always been unidirectional with hardly any There is, therefore, an opportunity to promote CR in India. involvement of the local community. Newspapers, television channels Though there is a huge potential to operate a large number of CR and radio stations have been engaged in one way communication stations in India, very few organisations have been able to with people. Most programmes are also in major Indian languages successfully start and run a CR station. The CR sector in India at with hardly any inclusion of programmes in local dialects like Awadhi, present faces several challenges. Some of these challenges are Bhojpuri etc. highlighted below: Since community radio stations are permitted to be set up by only Complex licensing procedure non-profit organisations, they are not driven by profit motives like Issues of financial sustainability commercial FM radio stations. A CR station is also rooted in the local Need for more awareness about CR community, which gives it a distinct advantage to focus on Need for better coordination and convergence Following strategies have been adopted to overcome challenges: form and send it through post. Though the application format was provided on the website of the Ministry, applicants always found it Simplification of approval process and establishment of an effective difficult to clarify their doubts while filling the application form. No coordination mechanism guidance and support was available to help them in the process. The process of obtaining inter-ministerial clearances, frequency This system also had several other inefficiencies. The applicants allocation etc by Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) is could never track the progress of their applications. They were cumbersome and time consuming, resulting in delays in obtaining dependent on the Ministry officials to get any information. Many permissions for operating a CRS. To avoid delays and reduce the times the applications were sent without essential information approval time at the Ministry level, a time limit of 15 days is being which required clarification delaying the processing. Applications followed to send applications to Ministries for obtaining clearances. were also lost sometime in transition. The Ministry could also not Screening committee meetings have been held in mission mode to keep a tab on the applications received, processed and approved as ensure that no application is pending for more than a month for the entire system was cumbersome and manual.

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