Kumaon Vani Community Radio

Kumaon Vani community radio station (90.4 MHz) was set up by TERI in March 2010 in Nainital district of Uttarakhand with the aim of bringing together communities across several villages in the Kumaon region. The main objective of radio station is to promote sustainable development among the local farming community. Kumaon Vani reaches out to nearly 500 villages in Nainital, Bhimtal, Almora, Ranikhet, Kausani, Champawat, Devidhura, Pithoragarh, Betalghat, Sheetlakhet, Kausani, Gwaldham, and Bagheshwar which covers a population of nearly 3,50,000 people. The content includes mix formats like live discussions in the studio, phone interviews with experts, voices of farmers from the grassroots, live reports from the field, quiz, drama, and folk songs, etc.