Chennai
Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur on Tuesday said that, the Community Radio Station (CRS) provide much needed platform to disseminate content in local dialect.
Community Radio Stations offer a platform where content is disseminated in localised dialects and regional languages, he said while virtually speaking at a function in Anna University, Chennai on occasion of World Radio Day during the Regional Community Radio Sammelan (South). He said that local issues are raised and discussed in these stations in local idioms.
The government is committed to Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Viswas and Sabka Prayas. It is important to understand community radio in this context, he said. He further expressed by saying, the best example of how important the radio is that we should look at how PM Modi’s in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme is leading by example. The regional sammelans are an ideal platform to bring the CRS community closer.
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L. Murugan said that community radio was a pioneering concept and provides a platform to unheard voices from the community. He stated that, these stations were the best ways to reach out intimately and directly to the people as these stations create locally relevant programs that are useful to the community. The two day Regional Community Radio Sammelan for southern community radio stations also marked completion of 20 years of community radio in India.
