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Community Radio Stings Uncover Corruption

Championing the underdog and giving a voice to those not normally heard on the airwaves are common themes for community radio stations. In India, several new community radio stations are living up to this ideal.

Championing the underdog and giving a voice to those not normally heard on the airwaves are common themes for community radio stations.

In India, which only authorized community radio services this year, local, community-oriented stations are going further than just giving the local community a voice — they are acting as investigators and advocates, according to a report in The Times of India.

Savita Rathod, 26, walked into a PDS shop in Barkhandiya, a non-descript village of Dangs district. She behaved like any other “poor villager” pitiably requesting for a favour. Little did the PDS shop owner know this was to be the end of his career in black-marketing of subsidised food products. … Later, she played it on “Pardafaash” (Expose), an investigative reportage to unearth social and political scams – irregularities and corruption in rehabilitation work, culpability of government, vested interests and people on community radio.

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