Unesco renews community media chair at UoH

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has renewed its chair on community media in the University of Hyderabad (UoH) for a second term.

This was announced by P Appa Rao, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, at a press conference here . “In view of the excellent work done by the chair under the leadership of our university professor, Vinod Pavarala, during the first term for the last four years in promoting community media in south Asia as well as the rest of the world, Unesco has renewed the chair for another four years,” Appa Rao said. The chair is the only one of its kind in the world for Unesco.

According to Vinod Pavarala, the chair had, during the last four years, developed community radio tool kit, contributed to the framing of policy on community radio among others.

It had also trained staff on the first set of eight community radio stations being set up on a pilot basis in Bhutan recently.

Going forward, it will focus on completion of the projects in Bhutan, development of online content and courses in community radio, and taking community radio closer to women, such as through self-help groups, to be used in business and community development, he said.

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