Community radio stations can play vital role in ending social issues like child marriage, said child right experts and community radio promoters of Odisha. The opinion came at a state level consultation programme organized jointly by renowned non-profit Young India, ActionAid and Unicef at Bhubaneswar on 24th May 2017. Explaining the gravity of the issue of child marriage in India, Unicef’s child right expert Lakshmi Narayan Nanda highlighted the data provided in the recent National Family...
Odisha Media Award 2016 held, Journalists and media professionals committed to people’s issues honoured
Community media is the empowerment media of the future. It’s not only an information media but also an empowerment media, said community media expert Prof (Dr) R Sreedhar at the second edition of Odisha Media Award 2016 ceremony held on 2nd Feb 2017 at the IDCOL Auditorium, Bhubaneswar. In the inaugural session that was dedicated for discussion on the topic: “Is community media the future media?,” experts from media and development sectors highlighted the role and future of community...
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 concludes
While the world is abuzz with entrepreneurship and its role for societal development, we cannot deny the role of social innovation in bringing sustainable development with equity. However, innovations are shaped by the ecosystem that harbours it. This was the main objective of organising Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 in Bhubaneswar at Regional Museum of Natural History on last 29 & 30 Sept for two days. Young India with an aim of creation of favourable ecosystem for young people...
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 in Sept
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 is taking place at Bhubaneswar on 29 & 30 Sept. It will represent a national convening of social innovators where most bring together luminaries to explore the next big idea. We bring together those hungry social entrepreneurs not just to talk about their social innovations but to propagate the idea & encourage other young fellows said noted Social Entrepreneur & Community Media Expert N. A. Shah Ansari, Convener of this summit. This...
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