Dear Bazlur, Congrats to all the 12 community radio stations in Bangaldesh, and congrats to BNNRC who has contributed a lot to making CR a reality in Bangladesh. A momentous occassion for all of us.
best wishes, Ram On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:50 PM, AHM Bazlur Rahman <[email protected]> wrote: > *Bangladesh: 12 Community Radio have Clearance first time in Bangladesh* > ** > > Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), since its > inception, has been advocating with the government and with other > organizations for the promotion of Community Radio to address critical > social issues at community level, such as poverty and social exclusion, > empowerment of marginalized rural groups and catalyze democratic process in > decision making and ongoing development efforts. > > Today afternoon (3:15 pm ) Initially Ministry of Information, Government > of People’s Republic of Bangladesh has approved 12 Community Radio > Initiators for installation and operation of community radio in Bangladesh > first time. To ensure free flow of information and people's right to > information government enacted Right to Information Act 2009. Community > radio approval is a strong step to empower people in this regards. > > The main objective of community radio is to provide livelihood related > information to the rural communities in an understandable way. Agriculture, > education, health, disaster, women and child issues, market price, services, > etc. will be cover in the community radio for the community people. > > Initially government approved 11 Initiators like *Young Power in > Action(YPSA)* - Sitakunda, Chittagong, *Nalta Community Hospital*- > Satkhira, *LDRO*- Bogra, *BRAC*- Moulivi Bazer, *Barandro Community*-Naogaon, > *Proyas*-Chapai Nababgonj, *CCD*- Rajshahi, *Srizoni*- Jhinaidhah, > *EC*Bangladesh- Munsihigonj, > *MMC*- Barguna and *RDRS*- Kurigram. > > One government organization to install and operate Rural Radio in Amtali > under Barguna district, a rural community radio will be established by > Agriculture Information Service of the Agriculture Department of Ministry of > Agriculture. > > > *Bazlu > *_______________________ > AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR > Chief Executive Officer > Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC) > > House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 > Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh > > Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501 > 01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105 > > E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] > www.bnnrc.net > > _______________________________________________ > Asiapacific-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.amarc.org/mailman/listinfo/asiapacific-general > >
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