Dear James, As you can see, the article does say that a 'Rural People Development Association' is setting up a radio station in Madurai. I'm sure they meant PARD.
What's the status of your CR application? You say that you are waiting to sign the GOPA, but have you received your frequency allocation and SACFA clearance? warm regards, Sajan On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:56 PM, <pardmadu...@eth.net> wrote: > Dear Sajan, > Greetings from PARD. > Dr.R.Sreedhar, Director of Commonwealth Education Media Centre for Asia > should have mentioned our organisation that is going to start Community > Radio. We are People's Association for Rural Development and we are going > to start our programme from Thirumangalam in Madurai District. We are > waiting for the signing of GOPA still. > Thank you for the information. > With warm regards, > James. > > Thanks to George Lessard for the link] > 5 new community radio stations in Tamil Nadu > Express News Service, 8 May 2009 > TIRUCHY: Five more community radio centres would be set up in Tamil Nadu > soon, said R Sridhar, director of Commonwealth Education Media Centre for > Asia (CEMCA) here on Thursday. > Sridhar told reporters that 18 out of the 44 community radio centres across > the nation were funded by the Department of Science and Te chnology. Among > the stations, 14 undertook science programmes for women and four broadcast > programmes of ‘save earth’ concepts, he said. There are six such stations in > TN, including two stations in Chennai and Coimbatore, one in Tiruchy and > Puducherry. > The Rural People Development Association would establish new stations in > Madurai and another one would be established at Nagapattinam. Permission was > granted to set up stations Namakkal, Tiruchencode and Kumarapalayam. More > than 20 applications have been received from educational institutes and > NGOs. > Indira Gandhi Open University has started a six-month certificate course on > the operations of community radio stations and Holy Cross College has been > identified as the study centre. Training would be given on the organisation > of the community radios, announcing and other radio-related activities, he > added. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: sajan venniyoor <venniy...@gmail.com> > Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:52 pm > Subject: [cr-india] 5 new community radio stations in Tamil Nadu > To: CR India <cr-india@sarai.net> > [Thanks to George Lessard for the link] > 5 new community radio stations in Tamil Nadu Express News Service, 8 May > 2009 > TIRUCHY: Five more community radio centres would be set up in Tamil Nadu > soon, said R Sridhar, director of Commonwealth Education Media > Centre for Asia (CEMCA) here on Thursday. > Sridhar told reporters that 18 out of the 44 community radio centres > across the nation were funded by the Department of Science and Technology. > Among > the stations, 14 undertook science programmes for women and four > broadcastprogrammes of ‘save earth’ concepts, he said. There are > six such stations in TN, including two stations in Chennai and Coimbatore, > one in > Tiruchy and Puducherry. > > The Rural People Development Association would establish new stations in > Madurai and another one would be established at Nagapattinam. > Permission was granted to set up stations Namakkal, Tiruchencode and > Kumarapalayam. More than 20 applications have been received from > educational > institutes and NGOs. > Indira Gandhi Open University has started a six-month certificate course > on the operations of community radio stations and Holy Cross College > has been identified as the study centre. Training would be given on the > organisationof the community radios, announcing and other radio- > related activities, he added. > > http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=5+new+community+radio+stations+in+Tamil+Nadu&artid=yZDCjbk7GBk=&SectionID=vBlkz7JCFvA=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=EL7znOtxBM3qzgMyXZKtxw==&SEO= > > _______________________________________________ > cr-india mailing list > cr-india@sarai.net > https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india
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