Sorry, but my earlier mail on the subject got away by mistake. Here's the rest of it: On the subject of Community Radio, the ministry's year-end review for 2008 says, "The Policy on Community Radio was liberalized during the year to bring in the civil society and voluntary organizations working not for profit also under its ambit. Only educational institutions were earlier permitted to set a community radio. The policy has been liberalized by the government with a view to allow greater participation by the civil society on issues of development and social change."
I could have sworn that the CR Policy was liberalized during 2006, not 2008. In 2008, about 107 LoIs were issued by the government, a handful of new campus radio stations became operational, and two community-based stations went on air. That's not a whole lot to show for 2008. Sajan On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:12 PM, sajan venniyoor <[email protected]>wrote: > > The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has published its year-end > review for 2008, "Major initiatives of I&B Ministry during > 2008<http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=46125> > " <http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=46125> > It's amazing, but the only decision they have taken -- out of some 12 draft > policies parked in the ministry for years -- is the IPTV policy (and that's > probably because the major beneficiaries are MTNL & BSNL). Everything else > is 'being considered', 'being examined', 'ministry is working on' etc. Other > than issuing advisories and warnings to TV channels, they haven't done a > damn thing this year. > > >
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