Information Society Watch

February 6, 2008, The Hindu

Quoting the Information Commissioner K.V.R. Tagore, this news item reports that several NGOs backed out of the Karnataka State Government's initiative to prop up community radio programme when they came to know that they had to contribute. The programme called 'Namma Banuli' has been designed in such a way that the NGOs will have to bear one-third of the cost, the remaining to be funded by the government. However in the midst of all this gloom, what remains true and undisputed is the fact that community radio has a lot of untapped potential which needs to be taken advantage of.

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