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CCD Install Community Radio Station Soon Rajshahi, 24 April 2010:
On
23 April, initially Ministry of Information 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. Last several years CCD has been working for installation and operation of community radio in Rajshahi region of Bangladesh. In this regard, CCD has been successfully arranging long-term radio journalism training program in association with UNESCO, PANOS South Asia and the British Council. CCD has already developed young radio broadcasters for effective operate and broadcast proposed community radio station. Besides, with the assistance of IPDC program of UNESCO, CCD has been implementing two projects at now for developing a numbers of young radio broadcasters for upcoming community radio stations in Bangladesh. AMARC
Asia Pacific Welcomes Approval of Community Radio Licenses
in Bangladesh Kathmandu, 27April 2010:
Welcoming
the decision of the Government of Bangladesh Ashish Sen,
Vice President for AMARC Asia Pacific has congratulated
BNNRC and other civil society based actors, and policy &
state level supporters for their unrelenting efforts for
making this happen. “I am greatly encouraged by this
latest development in the community radio sector of
Bangladesh. This would augur well for the rest of South Asia
as more skies could be expected to open up for community
based airwaves”, he said. Likewise, Raghu Mainali, Vice
President for AMARC South Asia has said that the approval of
licenses in Bangladesh was long awaited and hoped for more
licenses to be approved in near future. “We have been
looking forward to this and would like to reiterate AMARC’s
continued support to members and partners in Bangladesh for
the development of community radio in that country”, he
said. Out
of the 12 licenses approved on April 21st, 11
will be operated by civil society based organizations and
one will be operated by a government agency. Earlier, AMARC
International saluted the decision of the Government of
Bangladesh for approval of the licenses. |
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Recently
government has approved CCD’s application for install and
broadcast community Radio Station in Rajshahi Region of
Bangladesh. Besides, government has also approved another 11
community radio initiators’ applications.
Asia
Pacific Region of the World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters, AMARC-Asia Pacific has welcomed the recent
decision of the Government of Bangladesh to approve 12
community radio licenses. This is the first time in the
history of Bangladesh that community radio licenses have
been approved. The approval follows the community radio
policy introduced in Bangladesh in March 2008.