after having an educational radio channel gyan vani that empowers students through its educational programmes through a network of 37 radio stations the indira gandhi national open university ignou is launching a community radio of its own the purpose of establishing our community radio is to reach the deprived section of society and go beyond educating the local community we want to engage with the local people and give them a sense of ownership the programmes will dwell on issues such as health basic hygiene environment fundamental rights local governance gender issues etc we hope to see the community radio functional in the next threefour months says daljit sachdeva producer community radio electronic media production centre ignou the community radio will be heard on 912 megahertz at a radius of eight to 10 kilometres from the ignou campus in maidan garhi initially the transmission will be from threefour hours