COMMUNITY RADIO AND TRIBAL EMPOWERMENT: EVALUATING THE ROLE OF VANYA RADIO IN PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT IN MADHYA PRADESH
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v7.i8s.2026.7937Keywords:
Impact Assessment, Vanya Radio, Community Radio, TribalAbstract [English]
Owned and managed by communities, community radio stations are considered forums for participatory community dialogue that are essential to development and social change initiatives (Fraser & Restrepo-Estrada, 2002). Through these dialogues, the communities are able to identify their problems and seek solutions through collaborations in line with their local needs. With these theoretical departure points, this study seeks to investigate the role of Vanya Radio – community radio stations set up by the Tribal Welfare Department of the Government of Madhya Pradesh - in the developmental processes at the grassroots level. Presently, these radio stations are operational in eight tribal-dominated areas of the state with a view to facilitating dialogues and deliberations among the communities around the local issues that affect their lives and hence collectively work towards addressing them. This study tries to identify the impact of Vanya Radio in their communities, to how they deploy the overall communication among the target audience. This study also identifies the current status and measures the reach and accessibility of the Vanya Community Radio Stations through the survey, FGD and interview; this paper is only based on the pilot study on Vanya Community Radio Station in Chicholi, Betul, MP.
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