{"id":5666,"date":"2019-08-30T07:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2019-08-30T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T07:45:44","slug":"dot-allocates-two-additional-dedicated-frequencies-for-running-community-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/dot-allocates-two-additional-dedicated-frequencies-for-running-community-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT allocates two additional dedicated frequencies for running Community Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 7th National Community Radio Sammelan, being organized by Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting at Dr. BR Ambedkar Bhawan, New Delhi. Delivering the Valedictory Address, Shri Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting informed that the Department of Telecommunications has agreed to dedicate two additional frequencies viz. 89.6 and 90.0 MHz for running Community Radio Stations. He also announces that on the lines of recent hike in advertisement rates for print and electronic media, the advertisement rates for Community Radio will be revised by the Bureau of Outreach and Communication within two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shri Khare also announced that a Community Radio Cell will\nbe set up in the Ministry for grievance redressal and collating actionable\nsuggestions received from stakeholders. He added that the Media and\nCommunication Plan of all Ministries of the Government must include Community\nRadio to leverage their deeper ground level penetration. He also said that the\ncompendium of all the programmes running on Community Radio Stations all across\nthe country released by Union Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar on the second day\nof the Sammelan will be distributed to all District Collectors to sensitize\nthem for utilization of Communication Radio in their local communication\nendeavours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shri Khare further announced that the National Sammelan\nwould now be held annually, along with Regional Sammelans which be held in\ndifferent corners of the country. Stating that the Ministry\u2019s aim to to set up\nat least one Community Radio Station in each district, starting with\nAspirational Districts, Shri Khare expressed hope of spread of a Community\nRadio Movement in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shri Atul Kumar Tiwari, Addl. Secretary, Ministry of\nInformation &amp; Broadcasting said that the development of a vibrant culture\nof Community Radio will help in greater information dissemination at the\ngrassroot level, which will result in further empowerment of people. He summed\nup the sessions held during the course of the three day Sammelan and thanked\neveryone for participating with fervour and infectious enthusiasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th National Community Radio Sammelan, being organized by Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting at Dr. BR Ambedkar Bhawan, New Delhi. Delivering the Valedictory Address, Shri Amit Khare, Secretary, Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting informed that the Department of Telecommunications has agreed to dedicate two additional frequencies viz. 89.6 and 90.0 MHz for running Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[696],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-community-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}