UNESCO and its colleagues organized a radio festival on World Radio Day on February 7, where broadcasting from different corners of the country explained how their radio centers were contributing to climate action.
Awareness
Co -Founder Shah Ansari of the first community radio ‘Radio Namskar’ in Orissa said, “The place I came to is the storm -storm state. In Orissa, the cyclone of 5 influenced countless people in the same place at the same place at the same place. The radio tower is broken three times.
Shah Ansari, spreading information through radio, teaches people of their community to avoid the catastrophe of climate change and encourages them to repay the destruction territories by their disaster.
He says, “There are some villages that were completely destroyed in the 1972 cyclone. Those villages are being recovered. Some elders heard how the environment was heard from his history, how people lived – the plants started planting there. We want people to settle there again. “
Radio
At the same time, the Gayatri Ghosts in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, conducted a community radio called Kevi Prabhara. “If we are the radio at the Krishna Vigayan Center, it is clear that we manage 50 percent of the programs for farmers,” he said.
“Our region has a lot of rainfall in some places, then there is no rainfall in any other place. Most farmers are mostly dependent on rain for irrigation of their crops. So it has become the purpose of the Krishna Vigian center that we can work for more farmers.”
Gayatri Mahask said, “Our radio has been given time to help farmers, the methods of rescuing the crops are called and if the disaster comes complete information on relief assistance so this radio is broadcast. Station is an attempt. Connect to the heart’s heart. . ”
Marginalization
And then not only for spreading awareness, but also the voices of the people of the distant people are a powerful medium to reach the mainstream, radio.
Bhaskar Bhuan, founder of the first civil society in the northeastern state, Community Radio Station ‘Radio Brahmaputra’, said, “We know that there is no communication or contact in the media of the marginalized community.”
“So be it national media, district level or simply uninterrupted language. The problems of this community do not reach that media. So we realized that community radio could play an important role in it.”
The sculptor started this radio station on the banks of the river Brahmaputra for 25 years. For this, the skills were taught the youth of the community to training themselves and spread the problems of their community.
“Now we broadcast programs in different local languages, which can increase the voices of more communities,” he said.
Cities also reach people
However, it is not that the radio has only access to rural areas. FM radio broadcasts in cities are also becoming aware of climate change and burning this step among the common people.
Red FM’s radio broadcaster says, “Radio is playing a very important role in the fight for climate change. All radio stations are conducting various types of activities related to this problem and your impact will certainly be seen in the coming.
Referring to a radio promotion, RJ Purb described how he started a campaign to send the audience to the audience during the mango season after eating mango. Because of this, several millions of kernels gathered in their studio, which were given to farmers and mango seeds for new trees.
Linguist
Radio has helped India’s indigenous language, smartphones, AL and mainstream media. Community radio stations are playing an important role in preserving linguistic diversity by speaking in the community’s own language.
Abdul Majid Lone, Radio Uri in Srinagar, explained, “The Indian Army has set up community radio in Jammu and Kashmir since the 21st. We present a multi -religious program. The name of my program is the old diary, where the community is memorized.”
“We programs in different languages-categories, hills, Punjabi and Kashmiri, so that the audience feels that there is a person like us in the studio.”
Access to the sky
Sanjay Jazu, secretary of the Government of India, Information and Broadcasting, also attended the radio festival. He introduced some amazing information about the national broadcast of this country – all India radio in this country.
He said that the air covers 90% of the country’s geographical region and reaches 98% of the country’s population. According to his ideals – ‘Bahujan Hitoy, Bahujan Sukhoy’, programs are presented in 23 languages, 179 dialects. “
He said that the new section of All India Radio works on the watch watch, more than 607 news bulletins are broadcast every day for both domestic and foreign services. Its 46 regional units prepare local and regional materials.
New technology, awareness and existence questions
On the occasion, the head of the Natural Science Unit of the UNESCO Regional Office of India said, “We are adopting new technology in the age of artificial intelligence and globalization, but at the same time the special power of our radio should not be forgotten – and it is the ability to connect directly to the audience.”
“Radio can be as a symbol of information, inspiration and tolerance by combining fancy with the everlasting force of telling the story.
The Director General of the Government -run ‘Akashbani’. Wisdom Paliwal Gaura said, “It is also very important for the radio to keep up with technical progress. An application of radio has been prepared on All India Radio, which has access to the world around the world. It is compact, easily available and it is possible to send messages to all classes through it. “
Shah Ansari says that those who ask “who listen to radio nowadays” asks? People have smart phones, smart TVs. They have electricity, they have vehicles. However, there are many people who do not have so much money. “
“Those whose houses are spent on a minor pension, they are the people who have the radio that they have the means of entertainment and information.”