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Educational Radio in India

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"For the present", the Government of India has allowed only the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) - under the Ministry of Human Resource Development - to run FM radio stations for educational programmes in India.

This was stated in reply to Rajya Sabha starred question Number 402 presented in Parliament in New Delhi on August 12, 2002. The question raised queried whether the Government has "received proposals from universities or deemed universities to run educational low-powered FM radio stations in the country".

Replying in the positive (that applications had been received), the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Ms Sushma Swaraj, said that the present policy was only to permit IGNOU to set up such broadcasting centres.

She quoted information received from the GoI's Ministry of Human Resources Development to say that IGNOU stations have been commissioned at Allahabad, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Coimbatore, Lucknow and Mumbai (Bombay). She said the "seventh station at Bhopal is likely to be commissioned shortly".

In addition, Swaraj said 23 more (IGNOU) stations are "likely to be commissioned during the (financial) year 2002-2003", meaning before March-end 2003. "The remaining will be commissioned during the next financial year," she added.

Ms Swaraj informed that a provision of Rs 15.10 crore (Rs 151 million) had been made during the year 2001-02 for this purpose.

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Message sent to [cr-india] list serve (archives at click here) on August 12 2002.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/02/2004 - 21:30 Permalink

i got information from the ignou student. Hes is in thrivendrum. I like to study the ignou from the archtitecture courses. But in thrivendrum there no reasons to study.