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Community Radio Stations and SVEEP
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- ECI has reached out to over 150 Community Radio stations from across the country to help educate and inform the voters.
- The main purpose of the workshop was for training and capacity building of Community Radios for voter education and awareness.
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- Community Radio Stations:(1) It is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting.(2) They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters.(3) They are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve.
- Need:(1) Community radio plays an important role in dissemination of information about government schemes and policies to the common people in local languages.(2) India is a land of diversity in terms of language, social practices, dialects and culture, a community radio can be a powerful tool to revive culture and languages that are dying.(3) It can help give voice to the voiceless in the backward community.
- Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP):(1) Flagship program of the ECI for voter education, spreading voter awareness and promoting voter literacy in India.(2) Since 2009, it has been working towards preparing India’s electors and equipping them with basic knowledge related to the electoral process.(3) SVEEP is designed according to the socio-economic, cultural and demographic profile of the state as well as the history of electoral participation in previous rounds of elections and learning thereof.
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