Role of Community Radio for Community Development in Bangladesh

DOI

10.2991/itmr.2017.6.3.3How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Community radio, Community Development, disadvantaged and vulnerable group, Remote and rural areas.

Abstract

Community radio is a medium of expressing and sharing views, thoughts, ideas, problems and prospects of rural, disadvantaged, vulnerable and hard to reach population with the mainstream population. As the media of root level people of the disadvantaged areas, Community radio has become popular in recent years and it has opened a new arena for both the policy makers as well as grassroots people to be involved in the development process of their community. There are about 17 Community Radios broadcasting 135 hours programmes in a day across the country. The Community Radio can help us in addressing social, economic, cultural, educational, health, water and sanitation and disaster related issues more effectively and strategically. In order to highlight the importance and effectiveness of community radio for the community development of Bangladesh, this study has been conducted based on the secondary data. This is a group effort that has become successful by the co-operation of many individuals and institutions. Access to Information (a2i) Programme would like to express sincere gratitude to Monisha Mohonto, Project Focal and Bakul Mohonto, Program Assistant, BTV for introducing such an innovative project. As this is a new concept, there is no significant study has been conducted. Therefore the study has been directed to explore the importance of community FM radio in Bangladesh particularly in remote and rural areas.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Md. Anowarul Arif Khan
AU  - Md. Mostafizur Rahman Khan
AU  - Mahmudul Hassan
AU  - Firoz Ahmed
AU  - Shah Md. Rauful Haque
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/04/30
TI  - Role of Community Radio for Community Development in Bangladesh
JO  - The International Technology Management Review
SP  - 94
EP  - 102
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SN  - 1835-5269
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.2017.6.3.3
DO  - 10.2991/itmr.2017.6.3.3
ID  - Khan2017
ER  -