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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Grass Root Action : Vibrant System Of
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<P class=MsoNormal align=justify><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Verdana><U><B>Introduction<BR></B></U></FONT><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>Poor and vulnerable groups often lack information
that is vital for their lives - information on basic rights,
public services, health, education, work opportunities etc. Of
all the means of mass communication, community radio is
perhaps the most effective one. It is a powerful means for
empowerment and social change. With 110 million illiterates in
the country, reaching the unreached is a major challenge.
Community radio is an attempt to overcome this literacy
barrier. <BR>It is an affordable means of communication, where
the people themselves raise issues and identify their own
priorities. It is a new source of strength for poor
people.<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>It was the
utter poverty and starvation with large scale distress
migration and totally ignored region, administratively, that
helped the community radio programme a major accepted tool to
give voice to the voiceless in the districts of Garhwa and
Palamau in the state of Jharkhand in India.<BR>With
overwhelming success and change that the programme brought in
Palamau division, the community radio programme by <FONT
color=#0000ff><A
href="http://www.aidindia.org.uk/main.htm">Alternative for
India Development</A></FONT><A
href="http://www.aidindia.org.uk/main.htm"> (<FONT
color=#0000ff>AID</FONT>)</A> expanded to other regions of the
state where people’s concern, though different from the former
region, faced the same apathy from the custodian of the
deprived. This led to the expansion of the radio programme to
the regions of Khuntkatti in Ranchi, East Singbhum and the
Kolhan region of the state, where the self governance of the
tribals, in majority, are at stake.<BR>The expansion of
community radio was made on the basis of the high potentials
identified in Jharkhand state to use the power of community
radio for seeking right to information, raising awareness and
mobilizing the people for demanding people’s rights and needs
and for improving the governance system. The project was built
from five years of experience in community radio in Palamau
District. This resulted in scaling up the similar projects to
wider areas in Jharkhand.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<P align=justify><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><B><U>Background<BR></U></B><BR>A majority of the
population in the districts of Palamau region comprising
Latehar and Garhwa districts lives on the edge of poverty.
Similar condition exists in the tribal habited pocket of
Khunti subdivision of Ranchi district and in Kolhan and East
Singhbhum region of Jharkhand state in India.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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href="http://www.aidindia.org.uk/cr_nl_oct06/cr02.htm">read
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<P class=MsoNormal align=justify><B><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><U>AID Intervention<BR></U></FONT></B><SPAN
style="COLOR: #231f20"><BR></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana size=2>A
half an hour program ‘Chala Ho Gaon Mein‘ aired on All India
Radio broadcast from Daltonganj studio is an attempt by AID to
address the most basic development needs of the people of the
region.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<P align=justify><B><U><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Impacts of
Community Radio: Case Studies<BR><BR></FONT></U></B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The power
of community radio lies in its participatory nature, as both
its content and technology are people-oriented. Some of the
live case studies, mentioned below, from the field bring about
the impact of the community radio in the region.<BR>The
following examples show how the programme being aired through
the community radio has affected the people and brought about
the behavioral changes among them.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD></TR>
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<TD width="92%"><A
href="http://www.aidindia.org.uk/cr_nl_oct06/cr04.htm#cs1">Errant
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<TD width="92%"><A
href="http://www.aidindia.org.uk/cr_nl_oct06/cr04.htm#cs2">Sensitization
towards better health</A></TD></TR>
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Alert brings delivery of services</A></TD></TR>
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href="http://www.aidindia.org.uk/cr_nl_oct06/cr04.htm#cs4">No
more voiceless</A></TD></TR>
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<TD width="92%"><A
href="http://www.aidindia.org.uk/cr_nl_oct06/cr04.htm#cs5">Voices-thirsty
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<P align=justify><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><A
name=editor></A><U>From Editor's Desk</U></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><BR>The community radio programs represent the voices and real
concerns of the poor communities. It fulfils their information and
entertainment needs.<BR>Our experience from the field shows the community
radio as the most effective tool in bringing about behavioural change
among the people at the social level and also lowering down the corruption
level up to certain extent. It has helped in building up awareness among
people to demand for their rights and entitlements.<BR>But when we talk at
wider aspect, going beyond our project region, we find that size,
diversity and complex socio-cultural structure of our country requires
constant involvement and participation of people in conceptualizing and
implementing strategies for their empowerment.<BR>Often information is
disseminated without understanding the needs of the users. Most
information systems provide information to the poor that is not
demand-driven. They overlook local knowledge. For information to empower
people, it must bring into focus the need to improve poor people's
capacities to analyse and understand information and act on it by
communicating their views.<BR>Communication implies action and
interaction. To communicate is to express one's opinions and preferences.
It also means sharing and exchanging views and ideas – that is a powerful
means for social change. <BR>In order to make genuine community radio a
reality in India, there is an urgent need to develop a framework within
which community radio stations can function. The framework includes
developing a National Policy Framework that will enable communities to own
and operate radio stations in India, as is the practice in other parts of
the world. At the same time, there is need to learn from experiences from
across the world, and develop a National management framework that will
address concerns of the people at the grassroots level.</FONT></P>
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