 Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It is our great privilege today that Gyan Torango with Emoto, Mukta Mon, Mukta Sarsar, the first and only community radio service of the Northeast, will be launched under the ages of Krishna Kanta Handic State Open University. We are pleased to inform you that this community radio was already launched on 28th January 2009 for experimental broadcast by the Honorable Chief Minister who is present here today. The Government of India gave me some for clearance in January 2009 and allotted the same frequency 90.4 MHz for regular broadcasting from today, that is 20th November 2010. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you to be a part of this historic occasion. In January 2009, Krishna Kanta Handic State Open University hosted the first and only community radio service of Uttar Pradesh. Mukta Mon, Mukta Sarsar. Today, Mukta Hikhar Khetrat, the first and only community radio service of the Northeast, will be launched under the age of Gyan Torango. At the same time, I would like to inform you that on 28th January 2009, the Honorable Chief Minister of the Central Government, Sriju Torung, will be broadcasting the first and only community radio service of the Uttar Pradesh. In the early days of the first year of the country, Gyan Torango was the first and only community radio service of the Uttar Pradesh. Today, on 28th November 2009, Gyan Torango will be broadcasting the first and only community radio service of the Uttar Pradesh. I would like to request Krishapura to congratulate the Honorable Chief Minister for Sam Sriju Torung. I would like to thank the Honorable Chief Minister for the first and only community radio service of the Uttar Pradesh. Now, I would like to request the ceremonial land. We will now begin this auspicious occasion with a foregit to be performed by Jiten Bosumatari and team. The welcome address will now be delivered by the Vice Chancellor of Krishna Kanta Handic State Open University, Professor Srinapura. Honourable Chief Minister, Professor Mehdi, Chief Guest of this function, Director Surya, Guest of Honour, who has come all along from Delhi. Surya Satyabruti, former Director, Deputy Director-General of Peshawarati. The members of the Board of Management, members of the Advertising Committee of Community Radio of the Handic University. Mr. Bangupak Dhai, General Manager of Wisbangalimakini Corporation, who has come from Calcutta's vacant dysfunction, invited guests and my colleagues. I have great pleasure in welcoming all of you to this function. Particularly this is a very important day for us that we are going to launch the first Community Radio State Service in the Northeastern region. This is possible to launch such a very important service for the students, learners and general public. Because of the help and assistance we receive from the various corners, particularly from the Government of Assam, Honourable Chief Minister, who is the person behind this establishment of this university. From time to time he is encouraging us, he is supporting us in carrying the various programs including this launching of this radio service station. It reminds me that about two years back, no one and a half years back, after we applied for the Community Radio to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in 2008, we had the pleasure of organising a workshop on awareness of community radio jointly with SENKA, Commonwealth Education Centre for Asia and also Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in January 2009, that is January 28th and 29th, January 2009. And the Honourable Chief Minister in that particular function, he inaugurated the function and he declared that he will establish, the Government will give funding for the establishment of about 10 such community radios under the Krishna Kanta Hindi State Open University. We are very glad and in fact the Government is extending support as we need, when we need and in fact I would like to inform Honourable Chief Minister and other guests that two of our study centres, one is not looking for girls' college and Gorgon College, they have also got the papers, relevant papers from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to go ahead with the establishment of two community radio stations. I like to tell the SENKA that the Open and Distance Learning System depends on the support we give to the students, to the learners and one of the most important support we give in the form of study materials which is in pre-media form, the learners, students of this university or opening universities do not have regular face-to-face teaching learning interactions. We have to give the learning material in pre-media form but the most important thing is that one of the objective of Open and Distance Learning is to give education to anybody, anywhere and anytime, the only alternative is to give the information and communication technology. So we have been from the very beginning when we started our various programmes in 2008 January, we have been from that time trying to give the learning materials in the audiovisual form and we have established a studio that they provided us the equipment, they provided us the guidance to establish this particular community radio service. While saying so, I like to say that this university since the very beginning the Lansing Academic Program plays the utmost priority to develop course material in both print and audiovisual forms besides providing parts of the courses to learners through radio and television broadcast services. Since the university at present is handicapped for not having the infrastructure in its permanent campus at Rani, a minimum infrastructure in the form of studios for radio and audiovisual production has been created in the rented house in the house-bed complex with the financial support for the Distance Education Council. Our mission for establishing an educational radio service became easier when the director of Comments for Educational Media Centre for this year shortly we call it SEMCA, that was created, requested this university to organise a two-day workshop on the role of community radio in the northeastern region. The university hosted this two-day workshop on the role and importance of the community radio service in social and educational development of the society in collaboration with the Ministry of International Broadcasting. The honorable chief minister was kind enough, I have already stated that to declare the establishment of 10 SESS Community Radio Centre through this university for 10 colleges located in various parts of the country. The university plans to telecast educational programs both pre-acquired and live directly through the centres in phase manner from the beginning of 2011 through the lease line to be provided by the National Knowledge Network which is shortly called NKM in collaboration with BSNL. In the first phase the university plans to connect about 30 study centres throughout the state through the BSNL lease line so that the live lectures discussions can be telecast to these 30 centres from the head office of the university so that the students and learners can direct interaction with the experts. As a part of the ICT mission for the Learning Support Service the university is preparing to launch a web portal in the early part of 2011. This web portal seeks to provide the learners of this university, students of other universities and colleges and general public to get the benefit of learning materials of KK and Hindi university, audiovisual programs and radio programs anytime, anywhere and for anybody. The community radio service was launched in the whole country only in 2004 that was first launched in Anay University in 2009 and as in November 2008 the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gave licenses to about 38 educational institutions and NGOs in our country whereas at the same time that Australia had more than 440 such community radio stations in 2008 in our country. Anyway we are not lagging far behind we are happy to announce already you have come to know that this is the first community radio service we are providing this university providing and with the support of others and I think we will be able to provide such type of services to the students not only of KK and Hindi university to the students of other sister universities of this university of this region as well as to the public. Thank you so much I welcome all of you again thank you. Thank you sir. Ladies and gentlemen may I now request the Honorable Chief Minister of S.A.M. Sri Torungo Goy to formally launch Gyan Tarangal on air. I am the Chief Minister of S.A.M. I am the Honorable Chief Minister of S.A.M. I am the Honorable Chief Minister of S.A.M. I am the Honorable Chief Minister of S.A.M. I must say that I am definitely excited because I have only just幾 minutes to complete This will be very difficult to handle the question of how to combine the concepts of Christianity and Christianity in a binary manner. Listeners, you have tuned to the English program of Christianity and Christianity State of the University. Today, listen to Prof. Krishnapuram Venugopal Nagraj speaking on the topic, Scientific Research in Mass Communication. Scientific research in mass communication involves four identifiable operations. This is number one demonstration. We will be starting this initiative. And this will inspire me to do more of this. The first thing that we need to do is To get the information we need, we need to do the same on the second day, after the 5th day we need to do the first day, after the 5th day, we need to do the same on the 2nd day, after the 6th day, we need to do the same on the 8th day, after the 12th day, we need to do the same on the 2nd day. Next, we need to go to the Gwahati Dispute Thaka University, Dr. Roselia, College of Business and Education, Council of Government of India, Arvind Chakraborty, former Deputy Director General Brudersen, Mr. Kista, for 3D Huckle, and for me with the right. Ajeev-e-Vanustana, with the goal of it by, Mohan Pasha Kauri, and Nandita Hoisu. 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I'm a financial assistant vice senator of Obcando Faculty, colleague of Chandra получating�各位 máguwers the PHD colon feeling of university. of this university. Today is a very important day in the history of education, higher education in Assam, and we now have a community radio service at KKH, Hondikawai Open University, and the bison seller and also our Honourable Secretary told you what this can do. I don't want to add more to this, except saying that conceptually if you look at it, it is a community radio service. So it's a participation of community, so that's what one has to emphasize on. And in fact, this is a new idea in the education system, in the sense that the participation of community in the education, that's a very important thing. And so around this we have to work around, and maybe lots of things can be thought about, maybe you know, some discussions and some other programs where we can get community participation. They can tell us about what they want and what kind of programs, what kind of courses, what kind of knowledge that the community extracts from us, so we can not only help them, but also can get their feedback. So there is another important area of this, and of course many of these courses that can be given, that's already been talked about. So in general it is important that we are using more technology. Basically teaching is all about communication, and of course not one way communication, it should be two way communication, both sides. So that's what I talked about, the community participation. So in order to improve higher education system we have to use all modern technology, radio is one thing, FM radio session, and also we have to think in terms of online education also, in the new course we are thinking along that line, video conferencing, online education, all these we get should be part of the education system. So those days of talk and talk method of education is done. Now we have to use all methods of communication, internet communication, and others also for development of higher education in the state or in the country. Actually I would also like to make an announcement before you that I would also like to take the honorable chair minister also that Guwahati University also has now officially signed an agreement. We are supposed to set up a community radio center as a radio service within about three months from now. So we shall also do it from Guwahati University. We have in the university we have Institute of Distance and Open Learning, so the director is here. So there also we will have this thing, within a five mile radius from Guwahati University campus we can take people around and we can also give this course work to the radio plus also we like to put more emphasis on community service. We have a big campus, we have several thousand students in the campus. So I think a kind of healthy interactions can be set about to FM radio team apart from other educational programs. So that will probably get lots of things. Student feedback is also another thing you can get it through this community radio session. So I would like to join Guwahati University in thanking our honorable chair minister is because of his encouragement, because of all everything that we want from him he has done so at least Guwahati University I can say that and because of that we have made lots of progress in last two, three years you have seen. We have made lots of progress in this. We have introduced lots of courses. Of course one thing about applied economy actually we have this business economics, master of business economics that is also applied economics. So that is helping lots of people are interested in learning that course because it is really directly applicable. So we are trying to do the many other things which you know the forum for this. Basically we have to use technology, modern technology let us technology in education that is the buzzword that what we should do. I like to thank the honorable chair minister and the government of Assam and also the distance education council the director is here. So they also help us in this and I believe that we shall also do this. Lastly I would also like to tell you one thing and that in Guwahati University we have advantages that we are not just open university we have it is a regular program we have and also we have open distance education program. So that makes a unique situation for us. So what we like to do in very soon is what is known as convergence program you know you have combined both regular and distance mode education. So when we some other courses or some part of the courses the special papers can be given to regular education and some subsidiary subjects can be given to distance education. So we like to give this combination of different modes. So that is advantage we have in Guwahati University. So both regular and distance can go together. So this is what we will try. So with this again I thank Vice Chancellor of KK Handigay University that he has taken a lot of pains in setting up this university. He is very successful and I also thank that he is also his effort. He also helped us in getting this community radio service. Actually we got the permission more or less in the same time. You are faster than me without this thing. So it doesn't matter what university we also have it. So thank you for that. So with this I come to thank you very much. And with Vice Chancellor of KK Handigay University Vice Chancellor of Guwahati University in Guwahati University because I am used to this open university. So it is deeper than you have a combination of this. We are both dual mode universities. And since I work in the Department of Political Education all India radio. First at the outset I thank Vice Chancellor of KK Handigay University for providing me this opportunity. And I think it is a privilege to be present here on this occasion. I also convey greetings from the Chairman of Distance Education Council, Professor Raj Sikhan Pillai, Vice Chancellor of KK Handigay University on this particular occasion of the launch of the first community radio in the North East region by the Open University and Khandigay Open University. As I have been said in the previous speakers, radio in fact is a very powerful medium and can be very effective tool for imparting distance education. In fact when we talk of distance education I will slightly digress and just within two or three minutes then come to this one. Distance education is also a form of education where teacher and taught they are not directly in the contact but the regular process of teaching takes place. And for this different types of media are used which where print is the main media which is supported by the other media like radio, radio, radio, satellite and internet and other things. So the first distance education in our country started in 1964 by this Delhi University. It was a correspondence post-institution and initially it was just as a project taken as a project whether this idea will be accepted or not. But as the time grew demand for higher education also started increasing. Presently we have 400 plus universities in the countries and more than 22,000 roughly about 26,000 degree in post-graduate colleges which catered to the grass enrollment ratio of 12 percent. Our grass enrollment ratio is 12 percent at the moment. But in normal course this ratio should be around 22. For example in America grass enrollment ratio in a higher standard is 81 percent. In UK it is 49 percent. In Japan it is 41 percent. In a country like Philippines it is 31 percent. Although in India it is 12 percent. There are places for example in Delhi I know two cases where one of the person who got 92 percent he got admission in the college. And the person whom I know he has 88 percent. But he could not make to the college because the number of seats are limited. Question is where will he go? So in that case distance mode is also a powerful tool whereby one can use its to empower its path for inclusive growth as the Chief Minister was mentioning in the beginning before this lecture. Distance execution and of course with the time, passage of time earlier farming was a correspondence then distance execution where print material were made in self instruction format. Then technology enamored where radio and television were also used now internet which makes you knowledge media and not as bus media. Now as this system grows different technology have their own importance and in a hilly state like Assam community radio definitely plays an important role because by using this type of radio one can reach to a larger distances not to all the lesser but inaccessible distances. I will quote you one example because once we made some pilot study in the state of Haryana how effective can be the use of radio for important education. It was found that specifically those persons coming from remote and farmer family they were more interested in listening lessons mostly in social science or humanities we can say not sciences, sciences is difficult you cannot do that. And then on one of the survey question was why you are interested in listening to the radio? The answer is many times it is not possible because we are working we are sometimes in the field also but at the same time now it is radio are very compact you can put in the pocket and while going through or while working you can also listen to that and as a child or as a grown up person one can also learn by listening or hearing. So that way it can be very effective tool and for this on my behalf and on behalf of distance education concepts Congressional Device Chancellor, Hanik Nosti for taking this initiative and for launching this completely new project. So for distance education council is concerned it has three objectives one is promotion coordination and maintenance of the standard in open and distance education system in the country. As I told you that first when we started in 1962 there was only one correspondence institute and by 1991-92 when distance education council came in existence only three open universities were there. Now at the moment we have 14 open universities one national open university, 13 state open universities, 150 dual node institutions as this Vice Chancellor Gauhati Nosti was saying and approximately 100 institutions. Now as the number of institutions increases the quality of the system also becomes a concern. So in order to encourage the system institutions to launch distance education program that is promotion is one of the part and for promotion especially to government institutions like open universities and dual node institutions we provide development assistance. This is a one part of where one can even if they don't have resources they can develop host materials or they can incorporate technology in the language of programs. Apart from that we also encourage them for sharing of resources from other universities. Suppose the university wants to launch a program the same expertise may not be available here in Gauhati. So what is how we dictate a program from Indra Gandhi University or from any other university nearby is such type of program. So such type of collaborative element also we interact among the institutions. There are two main reasons for that one is it reduces cost and second thing it ensures quality in the system. The third aspect is also we are trying to encourage nowadays is the credit transfer system which will increase mobility of the students from open system to the regular system face to face system and vice versa. For example anyone working specifically in the service sector we have noticed that many of the people working they are transferred after 2 years after 3 years and they found very different to continue with the university will get involved. So in that case if we defined our courses in terms of credit then one can earn some of the credits from system where he was earning and remaining he can earn from the other universities. So at the same time this can be applied and it can be lead to a certification or degree. For maintenance of quality and the step what we have taken is the approval of programs and courses of the institution there is a valid notification from the government of India that if the courses not approved by the distance education function they are not valid for employment in government sectors. So for this purpose specifically for open universities we mostly take their courses as approved and have these notifications from time to time. But for dual mode institutions and private institutions because private institutions are there with these disciplines. For example maybe the Hindi university after the BA program they will charge 3000 to 4000 fees or maybe less than that. But if a private university is there for the same program they will charge 15,000 20,000. They will show the students as if they are going to break open the sky and there is a front. But the reality is the material and other things is very poor. So that certification we have started and only those programs which are approved by the distance education function are valid for employment and we are trying to reinforce this time and again. Although as I said there are systems we have also constant we have less manpower so all the time it may not be possible that immediately we started the application and do it in some time but these are some of the steps. But I am happy to know that the Hindi university although it is a new university it has started and now it has run 42 programs and more than 40,000 enrollment in a short span of time. And on behalf of chairman distance education council I will say that whatever best we can do we will try to provide them development grants so that they go further. But this I will say and then we will start giving this opportunity and finally fall less than we fall right here. Thank you.