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Article: Pitroda calls for 1,000 community radio stations in a year
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- The Hindustan Times
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- September 15, 2007
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Puducherry, Sept. 15 -- Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission Sam Pitroda has called for at least 1,000 community radio stations to be set up in the country in a year's time.
In a video message to participants at a media workshop in Auroville here, Pitroda also called for greater awareness of radio's usefulness.
Expressing concern over the ban on news and current events under India's radio policy, Pitroda said he believed that "the community radio can fulfil its
objectives to facilitate exchange and bring out more information on events of local importance".
He emphasised the "need for accessible and affordable technology to enable a larger number of CR (community radio) stations".