AFRC INDIA partner with Radio Mattoly to produce educational programs

Using technology for education

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AFRC INDIA has collaborated with  Kerala`s first community radio station to produce educational programs for the students and public of Wayanad district. The award winning station has already captured wide media and public attention with its innovative and socially committed programs, has already produced and relayed 100 minutes programs. The programs are:

•  Leadership Village: an educational revolution from Wayanad
• Communicative English training series: Part 1
• We are the world: USA for Africa, a tribute to musical volunteerism.

Radio Mattoli (90.4 FM) is a Community Radio Service (CRS) licensed by the Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, New Delhi; in Wayanad District of   Kerala State.   Community Radio Service focuses on different communities living within its transmission zone. CRS reaches out to every section of the society with special attention to the communities that are marginalized, to ensure that they also find expression through the radio. It provides farmers, tribes, dalits, women and children an opportunity to speak out, and be heard

                      Radio Mattoli signal reaches all the 49 revenue villages in Wayanad

For the past two and  a half years most of the people of backward   Wayanad in Kerala wake  to the echo of their lone Community Radio- Radio Mattolli . If you are in Wayanad you can tune in to Radio Mattolli at 90.4 MHz frequency from 6 am to 10 pm. Located at Dwaraka, Mananthavady in Wayanad District, this Community Radio is administered by Wayanad Social Service Society , an NGO with 36 years of experience in development interventions in Wayanad District.

            Radio Mattolli which  was launched in 2009 has a saga of success and need not say  Fr. Thomas JosephTherakam  , Director of the Radio has reasons to be happy.  Latest survey show that number of daily listeners come to 24.05% of the population. In demographic figures of the district (as per 2011 census) it comes to 2,00,056 people. But if weekly and occasional listeners of the Radio Mattoli are included,  the figures will be 74.05% (6,10,539). Another interesting factor is 56% depends on Radio Set for listening to community radio program, whereas 40% use their mobile phones to tune into Mattoli.

Radio Mattoli is the first Community Radio service in Kerala and the only electronic media in the State to broadcastprogramme in tribal dialects daily. The programme   which is all comprising of education, information health etc. is daily aired at 2.30 PM and at 8.05 PM. Radio Mattoli has also launched “Namma Sasthra” – A Special Science Popularization Program supported by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment.  Apart from this there are the regular features like reflections on  Gandhian thoughts, Interaction between officials and public,programmes for women prepared by women, introducing various books and local libraries, health programmes, programmes on job oriented training , new courses etc.    Well the Radio is living up to its mission of providing an avenue for the free flow of beneficial information aimed at bringing socio economic changes in the society. As the programmes aired are mostly presented by local  people, listeners  have  an immediate emotional attachment with the presenter and the message is effectively received. The target groups consist of marginal farmers, indigenous people, dalits, agricultural labourers women and children. Hence such an emotional bonding is much required  as these people need to have the sense of belonging in order to trust .

Radio Mattoli has even formed Mattoli clubs in schools. Out of the 288 schools in the district 91 schools have Mattoliclubs. Members of these  clubs get a chance to broadcast their programmes over Mattoli. This inculcates leadership quality, creativity, presentation capability and awareness in children. They get a wonderful exposure to the world of electronic media.

Logo map courtesy: Radio Mattoly, Photo, news courtesy indiacurrentaffairs

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Broken strings - a tribute to the golden age of music

"I'm sorry, as a fourteen year old, for what my generation did to music"

This is a strange comment scanned by ff News from a BeeGeeS song in You Tube. 

The Bee Gees were a musical group founded in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a popact in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s.

The group sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognisable; Robin's clear vibrato lead was a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the late 1970s and 1980s. The brothers wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.

AFRC INDIA starts intensive campaign in Kozhikkode

Kerala’s Wayanad district leads in utilization of MsDP fund

Wayanad:

While the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment has noted gross underutilization at national level of the funds under Multi-sectoral Development Program (MsDP) for Minority Concentration Districts (MCDs) Kerala’s lone MCD Wayanad has stood out setting an example.

The parliamentary panel in its report submitted in Parliament on 9th May 2012 snubbed the nodal agency of MsDP, the Ministry of Minority Affairs, for slow pace of the projects as only 49% of the sanctioned funds (Rs. 1174.93 Crore out of Rs. 2359.39 Crore) have been utilized so far.

However, Wayanad district has registered about 100% utilization of the funds of MsDP and almost all projects approved have been completed or will be by June 2012.

Among the 90 MCDs, Wayanad is the lone MCD in Kerala receiving Central Minority Affairs Ministry’s funds under the MsDP. The fund utilisation was a meagre seven percentage in the state but now with the new Directorate of Minority Welfare Department [MWD], Kerala having taken up the charge under its new director Dr P Nazeer; a 100 percentage fund utilisation has been brought about by the end of March 2012.

A complete utilisation of the central funds has been carried out for building additional classrooms to schools, drinking water projects and for building sub centres for local govt hospitals. Kerala was earlier listed as one among those states turning out least effective in utilising the funds but now with the new minority welfare department being appointed by the state govt six months ago, they are setting an ideal example for the other states to follow.

The District collector’s office states that Rs 3.8 crore was granted under MSDP for building 38 additional class rooms in govt schools across the district, out of which 20 have been completed until now. The state govt has added Rs 43.29 lakh to the central fund, thus taking the sum up to Rs 4.23 crore. The construction works of the rest 18 additional classrooms are expected to be completed by around mid-June 2012.

Lab upgradation of the Meppadi Polytechnic is under progress. The MsDP fund of Rs 20 crore 58 lakh, 29000 has already been granted.

In the year 2010 the tentative allocation of funds under MsDP for the Meenangadi Polytechnic was only 15 crore rupees and so the lab upgradation project and Hostel project was not undertaken efficiently. So the district administration and MWD have made proposals before the central govt for building additional blocks and for the upgradation of work shop facilities at Meenangadi Polytechnic and ITI Kalpetta.

MsDP fund of Rs 1 crore 80 lakh was granted for building sub centres to 10 local govt hospitals out of which eight have been completed until now and are about to be inaugurated. The works of the rest two sub centres are expected to be completed by around June.

The drinking water project for Nadavazhal region has already been completed by making use of the allocated Rs 2 crore 50 lakh rupees and is ready for use. The work got finished soon because it was an already existing scheme and only a few more works were required for the completion of the project. The Mullankolli, Kuppadithara and Padinjarathara Panchayath water supply scheme will take time to complete because at first the treatment plants have to be set up and the works can only be completed stage wise. The Mullankolli Panchayath water supply scheme has been allocated with Rs 7 crore and the Kuppadithara, Padinjarathara schemes with 4 crore 30 lakh rupees each.

The district collector office told TCN that, in a meeting held at Delhi regarding MsDP, on 6th February 2012 it was found that 157 Crore rupees went unused because of the lack of fund utilisation in other states and as per suggestions, the MCDs were asked to submit proposals for utilising this fund.

The district authorities along with the Kerala MWD then submitted proposals for an education package for the all round development of govt schools. The 90 crore project proposal included laptops for secondary and higher secondary, govt school students [9th, 10th, 11th, 12th classes], smart classrooms and advanced computer lab facilities. Besides, it submitted proposals for upgrading health centres.

Apart from the MsDP fund utilisation in Wayanad district, the new MWD Directorate has planned to distribute free laptops to the children of Madrasa teachers by making use of the Madrasa Teachers welfare fund. Besides they have plans to distribute study table and chair to the minority BPL students and the distribution will be done through SIDCO [Small Industries Development Corporation]. The table and chair is expected to cost at around 5000 rupees per head.

Source  http://twocircles.net/2012may23/kerala%E2%80%99s_wayanad_district_leads_utilization_msdp_fund.html

Minavet VFX Seminar at Balussery, Kozhikode

25 February 2012

Balussery, Calicut

The secrets of thrilling animation movies like Avatar, Tron, Iron man and Kung fu Panda were unravelled to day for a group of students belonging to different colleges and schools of Balussery. The session was attended by delegates from Bangalore, Kozhikode, Alappuzha and Wayanad. The one day seminar was organised by Minavet Institute of Animation and Design, Balussery, Calicut.

The chief resource person of the training session was Mr.Anand, an experienced hand in the field of multimedia and animation. The seminar focused many important aspects of visual effects including character animation, story background creation and environment. The program was organised by Minavet and its production unit Wings Minavet to spread awareness among the youth about the unlimited possibilities of visual effects, its modern techniques and the unlimited career possibilities. CEO of Wings Minavet Mr.Joushith, resource persons Mr.Sreehari, Ms Laila Saein and Anil Emage were also present.

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