Community Radio In India

This presentation is about Community Radio. We start with the basic question as to what is community radio. A brief history. The first NGO operated community radio and a few others in India. then we go more local to Hyderabad.

1. Community Radio
A presentation by

Sai Gayatri
Rachana
Hema Latha

2. What is Community
Radio?
Community radio is when local
people produce and broadcast their
own programs and participate in
operating the station. It is community
space for people to meet and
collaborate. It is extraordinarily fun
and often life-changing. It typically
leads to individual creativity and
self-empowerment.

3. COMMUNITY
RADIOS IN INDIA

4. ●The Community Radio was not legal in India till 2002. In December 2002, the NDA Government
approved a policy for the grant of licenses for setting up of Community Radio Stations ONLY to well
established educational institutions including IITs/IIMs. Thus, eligibility to own and operate the
community radio was restricted to only the educational institutions.

●In 2006, the government released a new community radio policy which allowed the agricultural
universities, educational institutions and civil society institutions such as NGOs to apply for a
community radio broadcasting license under the FM band 88–108 MHz.

●By 2008, some 40 Community Radio Stations started in India owned either by the educational
institutions or by the NGOs. First NGO operated community Radio was the Sangham Radio.

5. SANGHAM RADIO
A village named Pastapur in the Sangareddy district of Telangana runs a community
radio. The specialty of that community radio is that it is run by the women, and
caters to women only. The small village where the radio station is located is at a
distance of 110 Km from Hyderabad.

6. ANNA FM
Anna CR of Chennai engages individuals from the communities to volunteer with the
station. The existing volunteers provide station tours and orientation to new
volunteers. The first step is to attend a station orientation. After a station tour and
learning all about Anna CR, the next step a volunteer takes is to go through on-air
training.
The communities are given training in radio production skills; they are encouraged to
use the radio as the voice of the voiceless.

7. VASUNDHARA VAHINI
An agro-based radio, located in Baramati it also reaches out to nearby rural
areas, and its tagline is—‘a tool of social transformation.’
With its primary audience consisting of farmers and villagers, Vasundhara Vahini
focuses on various farming-related issues, like sustainable farming techniques,
organic farming, new varieties of seeds, updates on the commodity market,
weather forecast, various pesticides and medicines, etc.

8. COMMUNITY RADIOS
IN HYDERABAD,
TELANGANA.

9. List of Community Radios In Hyderabad

10. BOL HYDERABAD
Bol Hyderabad 90.4 fm is a campus-based community radio station located in University of
Hyderabad, Gachibowli. Stationed in a university with a proud history, Bol Hyderabad is a
pioneer in all genre programming among most FM radios. Besides catering to the university
community, the 90.4 fm station broadcasts all year round in English, Hindi, Telugu & Urdu to
cater to the communities in its surrounding areas (in a 15 km radius of Gachibowli). Bol
Hyderabad's community is extremely diverse, encompassing university students, civil
servants, educationists, IT professionals, scholars and other residents.

11. RADIO CHARMINAR
Radio Charminar 107.8 FM is a Community Radio established by Ahle
Bait Institute of Hyderabad in October 2015. With the target listener
ship of Urdu/Hindi in Hyderabad, station focuses on Community
programmes creating awareness about Education, Women
Empowerment, Health, Career guidance and social issues which would
benefit community in general apart from entertainment.

12. DECCAN RADIO
Deccan Radio was a community radio station in Hyderabad, India, operating on 107.8 MHz
FM. The station was licensed to the Abid Ali Khan Educational Trust and broadcast a
limited schedule of community programs.The station had evidently ceased regular
broadcasting around 2015. During this time, a new community station, Radio Charminar,
started on the frequency, transmitting from a site 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) away from Deccan.
The result was a complaint from Charminar, which claimed Deccan's broadcasts and
consequent interference made advertisers hesitant to purchase air time on the other
station.