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Press Information Bureau

Government of India

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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting  

Community Radio Station to start at Mumbai

New Delhi: October 5, 2009

 

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station at Union Park Residents Association, Khar Bandra, Mumbai. Letter of Intent had been issued to the Institute after recommendations of Inter Ministerial Committee and seeking requisite clearances from various Ministries. The Community Radio Station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement. With this, the number of CRS will increase to 57 in the country.

"JAGO MUMBAI" as the Community Radio Station will generate awareness for demo centers for composting and vermiculture, rainwater harvesting and solar power. The vision is to empower the community Radio Station, awareness and motivation to understand and carry out their civic responsibilities and to proactively participate in their all round development and as well as protection of environment. The proposed Community Radio Station will create awareness and motivate the surrounding community Radio Station cleanliness, health and sanitation, environment, waste management, conservation of water and electricity. It's intended to empower, unearth and showcase community Radio Station provide a network for social interface resulting in self - development. .

The Ministry encourages setting up the Community Radio Station as it promises to provide an opportunity Radio Station local communities to express themselves, share their views and particularly empower women, youth, marginalized groups to take part in local self governance and overall socio economic and cultural development in the area. .

 

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Press Information Bureau

Government of India

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Ministry of Finance  

India to contribute to South-South Experience Exchange Facility: FM

New Delhi: October 5, 2009

 

Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has announced that India would be an active partner in South-South Experience Exchange Facility and would soon be making a contribution to this facility. He was speaking at a function on Innovative Development: South South Opportunity in Istanbul late last night. Shri Mukherjee expressed the hope that donor countries can continue to support this Facility and the important South-South development agenda. Stating that it is a creative and important initiative, the Finance Minister expressed his happiness that the World Bank has taken it on. He encouraged the developing country partners to take advantage of this Facility and learn from each other.

 

Shri Mukherjee said that the South-South learning is indeed a new opportunity in development. Many developing countries may not have enough financial resources, but many have very rich development knowledge. He said that all of us working together, can seize the South-South opportunity to promote common development.

 

The Finance Minister said that India's experience in poverty alleviation, education, cooperatives, women's thrift and credit groups and large scale wage employment programmes like National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme could provide valuable lessons to other developing countries, especially African countries. The Indian experience in implementing economic reforms, in the development of IT sector, building of infrastructure through the PPP model, setting up of centers of excellence in engineering and management education, could help other developing countries to face and overcome similar developmental challenges. "On other hand, we would be keen to know how conditional cash transfer programmes have worked successfully to ensure targeted subsidy provision to the poor in many countries, or how some countries have mainstreamed environmental concerns in their national development plans", he added.

 

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