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Alwar Ki Awaaz
Alwar Ki Awaaz

Community Radio Edutainment for the Alwar Community

Background
IET Group of Institutions was given the approval for the setting up of a Community Radio Station, given the frequency 90.8 MHz. Being a new station, we do not have much experience. The current status of the project is that the studios are getting ready in Alwar Campus and we will soon be on air.

Aim
The Community Radio Station – Alwar ki Awaz aims to provide a wholesome entertainment and educational programmes to the local community members and the institutional students in the campus. These programmes are aimed at the youth, women, children and elders.

Programme and Management Committee
For this purpose a committee for programme management has been conceptualized. Students and local community members will form the thrust of the community radio’s content and decision making activities.

Programming Thrust
The programmes will cover entertainment, education, health, employment, entrepreneurship, agriculture, credit and finance, dissemination of information to the people on various State and Central Government schemes/projects along with imparting knowledge on natural resource management and cover cultural heritage and environment and climate changes, etc.

Engaging the Community
The plan for the community radio station is to engage the local community. Different formats of the programmes have been thought of. These will include: interviews, phone-in programmes, drama and plays, radio magazine and songs, etc.

Executive Committee and Advisory Committee
The following are the Radio Station Executive Committee Members: Dr V K Agarwal, Chairman, Dr Manju Agarwal, Executive Director, Mr S P Garg, Director Finance, Mr Ashok Singh Sunhal, Station Director The day to day programming and transmission will be under the following Advisory Commitee Members Manager (Programming and Operations) – under appointment, Ms Uma Khandelwal, Member Faculty, Ms Chitra Mudgal, Member Faculty, Member Student Community (Male), Member Student Community (Female), Member Local Community (Male), Member Local Community (Female).
We plan to have volunteers from the Institutional Staff, Student Community and members of the public.

Establishment and Sustenance
As the Radio station is being set up the capital expenditure would constitute is the cost of equipment, accoustics of studio, etc. This is being borne by the institution. Operational Cost is yet to be ascertained after the commencement of transmission