Social organisation Outreach in association with the Community Radio Association, East Zone organised a seminar on ‘Community Radio for Change’ here on Wednesday in remembrance of the first radio broadcast in the country that took place in Mumbai on July 23, 1927.
Akashvani Deputy Director Dr Shantanu Rath, private FM Radio Choklate founder Soumya Ranjan Pattnaik, Prashar Bharati Staff Training Institute Director Dipak Samantarai and Community Radio Association Vice-President NA Shah Ansari attended the event as guests.
The guests viewed that emphasis should be given on growth of community radio for the local development. Radio can play a vital role in conservation of culture, tradition, music and language of a community, they opined.
The Government has not provided license to any radio organisation in the last three years, rued radio jockey and Outreach president Subrat Kumar pati, adding the process of licensing need to be faster.
Several radio professionals from different All India Radio stations and private radio channels, radio journalism students, NGO members, social activists and media personnel joined the event.