‘50 community radio stations in State soon’
A State level community radio workshop was organised by the Young India in collaboration with the Unicef here on Tuesday.
More than 100 young journalists, radio professionals, community radio broadcasters and journalists from community radio stations of Odisha participated.
The guests were Chief of Office, Unicef, Odisha Dr Monica Oldezka Nielsen, C4D Officer, Unicef, Dr LopamudraTripathy, senior journalist, BBC Sandeep Sahoo, former Station Head, AIR-Cuttack Santanu Rath, News Editor, All India Radio, Cuttack Itishree Singh Rathore.
President, Community Radio Association, India, NA Shah Ansari said very soon 50 more community radio stations will be established in Odisha and the State will be the hub for community radio in South Asia in coming days. Now 265 community radios are functioning in India and there are 17 functional community radio stations in Odisha, he informed.