Dear Bazlur Rehman and all of CR concerned, I pleased to know about 12 community radios and heartily congratulate to all of you. Because I personally believe on the effectiveness of CR and like to work with.
Bazlur Rehman Sb, May I know that is there any CR broadcasting programmes in Urdu language? How could we listen? Best Regards Shaista Ilyas. --- On Thu, 4/22/10, Ram Bhat <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ram Bhat <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Asiapacific-general] Breaking News - Bangladesh : 12 Community Radio have Clearance first time in Bangladesh To: "AHM Bazlur Rahman" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], "AMARC_AP_General_List" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], "Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Received: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:53 PM 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Asiapacific-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.amarc.org/mailman/listinfo/asiapacific-general
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