Supporting Community Radio Movement in India

The Scheme encourages more and more Community Based organisations to come forward and setup Community Radios in larger public interests. Financial assistance is provided once the CRS is made operational by Licensee.

An organisation desirous of operating a Community Radio Station (CRS) must be able to satisfy and adhere to the following principles:

It should be explicitly constituted as a ‘non-profit’ organisation and should have a proven record of at least three years of service to the local community;

The CRS to be operated by it should be designed to serve a specific well defined local community;

It should have an ownership and management structure that is reflective of the community that the CRS seeks to serve;

Programmes for broadcast should be relevant to the educational, developmental, social and cultural needs of the community;

It must be a Legal Entity i.e. it should be registered (under the registration of Societies Act or any other such act relevant to the purpose);

NGOs, registered societies and Public Charitable Trusts shall be registered on NITI Aayog's NGO Darpan portal and the applicant shall provide its Unique ID along with the application.

Online

For Registration and for apply

Visit the official poral.

Follow the required instruction.

Copy of the registration certificate. (If the registration certificate is in languages other than Hindi/English, kindly provide translation in Hindi/English)

Copy of the memorandum of association/ bye laws etc. (If it is in any other language than Hindi/ English, translation in Hindi/English should also be provided)

Complete balance sheets with auditor's report for previous 3 years.

Map of service area.

Profile of organization.

Profile of community residing within 10 Km radius of location of CRS.

Geo-Coordinates (Latitude and Longitude) of the Location where antenna would be placed.

Details of All Governing Body Members of organization in the prescribed format.

Processing fee of Rs. 2500/-.