PARD Vanoli

About PARD Vanoli

Our PARD Vaanoli CR station has ensured very good community participation. They are engaged in programme planning, content development, anchoring and various back-end roles like research, knowledge sharing, documenting, etc. in the way of producing programmes, They are not only mere participants in the community radio, but have begun to believe that they are part of the CR Station in all aspects. They also actively provide the feedback of the programmes that were broadcast, which helps the station to improve itself constantly. We have identified more than 132 rural singers who sing rural songs on various topics without getting any honorarium. A few rural singers visited our CR Station with their musical instruments and made us to record their songs without any payment.

Signature Programme:
PARD Vaanoli @91.2 MHz has developed a programme series under the topic 'A Village Today' which details about 70 villages. Profiles and information was collected and this led to the development of one hour programme for each village. The focus is on documenting the cultural heritage of our area at the micro level. This is our signature programme as we believe that the level of detailing that the community members have been able to contribute makes it truly a people's documentation and with this we are building a repository of cultural knowledge and heritage of this region. Details of each village profile include historical aspects, agricultural aspect, religion and language. This is collected from the village community to produce the programmes. These programmes are broadcast and the feedback received also included for rebroadcasting of the programmes.

Mailing Address:

PARD Vanoli, Box 87, A4/1018, Siti Vinayagar Kovil Street, Thasildar Nagar
Madurai
Tamil Nadu
India
625020