coimbatore taking a leaf out of tapovani podcast which was launched in the district in march for the senior citizens to overcome their depression during the covid19 pandemic by letting them express their residual talents the national institute of social defence on thursday launched anubhav project in the districttapovani podcast was started by 75yearold r sreedher who recorded devotional songs sung by senior citizens and their storytelling and musical instrument performances from a retirement home in the cityinspired by his experimental podcast the national institute of social defence which is under the ministry of social justice and empowerment has decided to launch anubhav experience project across the country by engaging senior citizens to share content related to science and technology art forms and entertainmentin a first step an audio studio for the project was set up at covai s3 retirement community at pachapalayam with the central government funding of rs 12 lakh on thursday madan senthil chairperson rathinam group of industries inaugurated the facility similar audio studios would come up in nine other states in the country soon with the support of organizations working for the senior citizensin the district covaicare an ageless retirement community would train the senior citizens to record their programmessreedher said this is going to be an organized podcast platform for the senior citizens to document their views and residual talents at the end of the year i will have 1000 programmes from the 10 centres in the country we will then analyse what are the subjects that interest the listeners and take it forward