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Article: Government has high hopes from community radio
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- February 4, 2007
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New Delhi, Feb 4 -- The Indian government is upbeat that its new community radio policy will open up the airwaves to 2,000 to 3,000 low-powered and locally controlled radio stations in the next few years.
Joint Secretary (Broadcasting) N. Baijendra Kumar told a national consultation on community radio held here that it took "almost a year" for a group of ministers (GoM) to work out a "slightly liberal" policy on community radio. "The interests of commercial FM radio has overtaken the need for community radio a little bit," he conceded. "For the last few years (under the earlier 'community radio' policy) we managed to set up only 19 to 20 stations which we called "community radio" but were ...