ITANAGAR, Jan 22: The 3-day Community Radio Awareness Workshop organised by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in partnership with SMART came to an end today here at state capital.
Director, IPR, GoAP Obeng Tayeng and Director, Bureau of Outreach and Communication, M/o I & B, GoI Dr. Keshav Murthy were the Guests of Honour at the valedictory function. The participants were divided into 5 groups of approximately  8-9 heads.The workshop  gave awareness  on the entire process of application, policy guidelines, understanding of community, building of content, code of ethics, sustainability and funding opportunities and the groups were asked to set up dummy community radio stations on their own. They were asked to give a name to the station, create logo, form management committee, inform air times, languages, raise funds, select content developers etc. They were also assigned to produce contents of 5 minutes and present it to help the organizers in understanding the dynamics of community radio. Each group did a spectacular job by making logos and producing programmes on culture, education and agriculture. Using innovative techniques, organisers connected with the participants who in turn gave feedback and promised to initiate the application process soon.   
Tayeng said  he has written a paper on community radio and believes in the power of radio to transform communities and also assured participants to help in exploring financial support to set up stations. He further urged the Additional Director M/o I&B to host a workshop for officers of the state IPR and media units of GoI in NE zone to sensitize them about utility and scope of community radio. 
Dr Murthy said if the Ministry wants to promote/expand community radio stations, they should open CR cells in state capitals with the help of DIPRs, especially in  Northeast as connectivity is a major issue in the region and interested parties may find it difficult to seek clarification from Delhi offices and suggested that young entrepreneurs can be given short duration training on various aspect of managing CR under Skill Development Programme of GoI. along with  special financial assistance through NABARD for KVCs and NEC.  SMART PR 

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