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Pvt US radio offers help to Vaishali broadcaster

A private United States radio has offered help in restarting the one-man FM Radio Mansoorpur-1 that was run from a hutment in Bihar's Vaishali district for four years before it was shut down for not having a licence.

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Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

JAMSHEDPUR: A private United States radio has offered help in restarting the one-man FM Radio Mansoorpur-1 that was run from a hutment in Bihar's Vaishali district for four years before it was shut down for not having a licence.

Project director Stephan Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley said he would help Raghav Mahato restart 'Radio – Mansoorpur-1'.

Mahato, an unlettered man, had begun the FM station four years ago with an initial investment of Rs 50. The radio station was the only source of entertainment for the villagers.

On being informed of Mahato's venture, Union Communication Ministry officials raided the station on March 26 and shut it down, saying Mahato did not have a licence under the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 to run it.

The officials seized the equipment, but let Mahato off after he promised not to run the station in future.

The news about the raid and the subsequent shutting down of the FM station appeared in a portal on Bihar run by Sudhir Kumar, following which Free Radio Berkeley sent an email to Kumar seeking details of Mahato.

The US-based radio said it was prepared to gift a 15-watt transmitter and antenna to Mahato to run the station.

Dunifer claimed in his email that Free Radio Berkeley had been teaching and training people to build their own transmitters and set up community broadcast stations.

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