RADIO NAMASKAR
Description
Radio Namaskar, the only Community Radio of Orissa (India) established at KONARK ( Internationally renowned tourist place for Sun Temple) to make the common people informative & active participant of the community development process. Radio Namaskar has a total coverage in Gop, Nimapara, Astarang and Kakatpur blocks of puri district and also reaches in other surrounding locations. All these four blocks are vulnerable to natural calamities and are underdeveloped. The benefit of government welfare schemes hardly reach the communities living in these Blocks. Lack of awareness in the community place the women and children as disadvantaged with less decision taking capacity. In order to find the lacunae and mobilise the mass to come out of various stigma, Radio Namaskar has formed 72 listener groups to involve the communities in the process of their socio-economic change and design programmes to hit at the problems and emphasize free convergence among members and communities. Intending to empower the disadvantaged groups like women, children, farmers and fishing community members, Radio Namaskar has community focused specially designed programmes catering to each and every vulnerable groups and members.
What we deliver
Now we are broadcasting Eight (8) hours of programmes per day in 3 sessions, i.e. 2 hours (7.00AM-9.00AM) in morning, 2 hours (2PM-4PM) in afternoon and 4 hours (6.00PM-10.00PM) in the evening. We broadcast programmes such as, Chasa Basa Katha-A magazine on Agriculture .This is the interactive session among local farmers & experts Jana Soochana-Information about Govt. Welfare schemes / program/Act etc Hala Chal- Interactive discussion on local programs & happenings. Chala Skul ku jiba- Initiative to reduce dropout of school students. Mobile is used for this purpose as a tool of communication and action. Ajira Nari-Women based program with information on women rights, issues, gender concerns & day to day information on women in society. Yuba Barta-Youth based program basing upon carrier, sports, voluntarism , better citizenship etc Chala Gaon Ku Jiba-An interactive program on village, with situation / problem / issues-generally recorded from PO, CBO, SHG, VO etc. Angya Namaskar-Interview with noted personalities/citizens from community on different issue based topics. Chithhi Paichhu- Letter presentation /received from listeners. Mita Pain Gita Tie. – A cultural program by/for the listeners to be produced from community. This will be a sharing event among listeners. Janata Darbar (Citizens Court) People forum to raise Voice through Radio
Whom we deliver
Radio Namaskar has a total coverage in Gop, Nimapara, Astarang and Kakatpur blocks of puri district and also reaches in other surrounding locations. All these four blocks are vulnerable to natural calamities and are underdeveloped. The benefit of government welfare schemes hardly reach the communities living in these Blocks. Lack of awareness in the community place the women and children as disadvantaged with less decision taking capacity. In order to find the lacunae and mobilise the mass to come out of various stigma, Radio Namaskar has formed 72 listener groups to involve the communities in the process of their socio-economic change and design programmes to hit at the problems and emphasize free convergence among members and communities. Intending to empower the disadvantaged groups like women, children, farmers and fishing community members, Radio Namaskar has community focused specially designed programmes catering to each and every vulnerable groups and members.
How is the project unique?
All the staff members are from community. Most of the team members are volunteering. We didn’t recruit any professional staffs. We don’t need audition in Radio NamaskarOur 80% programme comes from community. The village listener units finalize the content & concept. Only CR in country uses ICT based tools for dev. We use music/songs from only community singers. All of our jingle & filler music are based with folk music.
Roadmap
Immediate Objectives: Promote communicable link among the proposed villages to develop an enabling environment for an all time connection among them that will ensure flow of information/benefits & access to all amenities and benefits for the targeted people. Promote a group of trained and organized youths/women from target group who will sustain the momentum of project. Development Objective: Democracy Aspects Ensure access to information, amenities and benefit packages provided by Govt. Ensure above benefits quite affordable for the people who are unable to avail that from private source. Enable the beneficiaries to share & communicate their problems in democratic manner with redressal agents (Govt. officials, departments etc.). Freedom of Expression Easy access to information in cheap and cost effective manner All time freedom to receive and send information in communicable manner People have the access to express and share their views with any person as feasible They will have the freedom to express their views without any fear and favour. Improvement in the Communication Capacity Clear, less time consuming, affordable and all time available Access to Information and Improvement of Knowledge & Skill etc. Easy access to information and knowledge will lead to improvement in knowledge and skill Scope for skill mix among the Govt. and Non Govt. stakeholders. Scope for transmission of knowledge to unreachable areas through quickest possible means Scope for replication in terms of transmission of knowledge and multiplication of impact Better & easy access of information & requisite matter for early reddressal of grievances & proper management people skill and local resources in cost effective and time saving manner.
Contact
Young India
N.A.Shah Ansari, President
Young India House Konark Orissa – 752111
URL/Website – www.radionamaskar.org
