The Sustainability Dialogues by Dr. Parveen Kumar

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       During the last 4 years, the country has moved from having only public service broadcasting to a new four tier broadcasting system which allows for public, private, education and community broadcasting. Private participation wasn't allowed until 1993 when the government experimented with a daily, two-hour private show slot on the FM channels in Delhi and Mumbai. In 2001 the first phase of private sector participation (FM Phase I) India's radio sector began and the government conducted open auctions of radio licenses. Radio City Bangalore, which started on July 3, 2001, is India's first private FM radio station. In 2000, the Government allowed IGNOU to set up FM radio stations in 40 cities to carry out education broadcast. Presently, there are 10 radio stations of IGNOU which have been operationalized. Community Radio: In December 2002, GoI approved policy for the grant of licenses for setting up of community radio stations to well-e...

  MOVING ON TO MILLETS International Year of Millets 2023                                                             Nutrient-rich, drought-tolerant and multipurpose; Millets are rightly being called as ‘Super Foods’ and ‘Food of Future’ . They are nutri-cereals that provide most of the nutrients required for normal functioning of human body . The International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ( ICRISAT ) estimates that more than 90 million people in Africa and Asia depend on millets in their diets and 500 million people in more than 30 countries depend on sorghum as a staple food. However, in the past 50 years, these grains have largely been abandoned in favor of developing more popular crops like maize, wheat, rice, and soybeans.             I...