Dear Suman, Thank you for issuing the 2009 edition of the AMARC Asia Pacific CR directory.
I am afraid I found it rather diasppointing, at least as far as the CR scene in India is concerned. The Directory seems to give the impression that there are just about five (non-operational) CR initiatives in India, along with half a dozen consultants, academic institutions and NGOs with an interest in CR. That is not the case. At the last count, 50 licenses were issued to CR stations in India, of which 45 are now operational, including 40 campus-based CRS. CR stations like Sangham Radio (Pastapur) and Radio Bundelkhand (Orchha) have been running successfully for almost a year now, but they don't figure in the Directory. Anna University's 'Anna FM' completed five years in February this year. The number of production houses, academic institutions and NGOs with an interest in community radio would run into the hundreds. I am also disappointed to see that countries like Thailand, with its hundreds -- if not thousands -- of community radio stations, don't figure in the Directory at all. The manner in which the Directory is compiled leads to these imbalances, I know, but with the accelerating growth of CR in the Asia Pacific, we need to find better ways of putting it together. Documenting CR initiatives in the region could be one of the issues that we discuss at the AMARC Regional Conference in October. warm regards, Sajan On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Suman Basnet <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > > > I am very happy to inform you that the second edition of the AMARC Asia > Pacific CR directory 2009 is available online at > http://asiapacific.amarc.org/index.php?p=2_Conference_Asia_Pacific_2009and > please follow the link in that page. Or you can also directly visit > http://amarcwiki.amarc.org/upload/documents/AMARC_CR_Directory_2009_Final.pdf. > > > > > Please circulate this information in your networks. > > > > With warmest regards, Suman > > >
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