After Karnataka farmers, it is now the turn of villagers in Bihar to swing to the tunes of FM radio.
The state plans to broadcast programmes in the rural areas of Patna and Nalanda district from November this year
PATNA: After Karnataka farmers, it is now the turn of villagers in Bihar to swing to the tunes of FM radio. The Bihar government is actively considering providing all the villages with their own Frequency Modulation (FM) radio stations.
If things go as planned, the FM radio stations would start broadcasting their programmes in the rural areas of Patna and Nalanda districts from November this year under the Community Radio Project, said Vivek Singh, Secretary of Information and Public Relation department here.
According to Singh, the project would be gradually extended to other districts and blocks and it will be a non-profit venture. The government has decided to involve registered non-government organisations (NGOs) to run the project. The NGOs qualifying for the scheme will have to obtain a license from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
The state would play the role of a facilitator in the project, Singh clarified. The community radio will also be broadcast from government owned high schools in rural areas on a ‘no profit, no loss’ basis.
In the opinion of the state government, the radio project would not only be a source of entertainment to the rural populace, but also a very effective medium to educate them about the different schemes of the government. The rural folks can also be educated on many other issues like the benefits of birth control and different measures that can be adopted for it, small family, education for their children, evils of dowry system, abolition of child labour and so on.
Besides all this, the radio project would be of great help in times of natural calamities like floods as all other mode of communication fails at that time.
The government said the radio project would bring about a qualitative change in rural society by empowering people with relevant information required to make decisions in their day to day life.
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