:: Chetana - Adult Education Through Radio

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Since 1978, Chitrabani has produced various types of educational and devotional programmes for RADIO VERITAS ASIA (RVA). RVA's station is located in Manila, Philippines, and it broadcasts on short waves in 14 Asian languages, including Bengali.


	Chitrabani produces programmes for broadcast under CHETANA, a Bengali word for Awakening. It is a programme that promotes adult education through radio. Chetana offers four weekly programmes of seven minutes each designed for illiterate women of rural Bengal, in India and in Bangladesh. Besides non-formal literacy, Chetana offers programmes on issues relevant to women.

A vast network of helpers ensures that the women can tune into the programmes and send their answers to the questions put to them. Successful listeners are sent a certificate of appreciation. Through field-visits Chetana staff monitor the listeners' response, and receive suggestions for programmes that are then produced in the field by learners themselves.

SL.NO.	SUBJECT	EPISODES
1.	Introduction to Chetana Programme	4
2.	Girl Child	8
3.	Role of Woman in the Family	4
4.	Health and Nutrition	4
5.	Medicine � Use and its Abuse	4
6.	Home Medicine and Treatment	4
7.	Medicinal plants and treatment	8
8.	Drama by Chetana Trainee	2
9.	Family Planning	16
10.	Education of Girl-Child	8
11.	Mail Box: Programme on Listeners� letters	6
12.	In search of a Profession	16
13.	Mail Box: on the Topics	2
14.	Superstitions	40
15.	Mail Box: on the Topics	16
16.	We and our environment	36
17.	Mail Box: on the Topics	6
18.	Our Rights	28
19.	Mail Box: on the Topics	6
20.	Women�s right	28
21.	Mail Box: on the Topics	10
22.	Women and Family	42
23.	Mail Box: on the Topics	22
24.	Medicinal Plant	18
25.	Deadly disease � AIDS	114
26.	Mail Box: on AIDS Topics	86
27.	We and Our Society	4
28.	Addiction	100
29.	Mail Box: on the Topics	54
30.	Snakes and Folk Beliefs	110
31.	Mail Box: on the Topics	56
32.	We and Our Society	4
33.	Arsenic	126
34.	Mail Box: on the Topics	64
35.	Ayurveda � Herbal treatment	54
36.	Mail Box: on the Topics	36
37.	We and Our Society	4
38.	Superstitions	154
39.	Mail Box: on the Topics	62
40.	We and Our Society	4
41.	Women and Society	52
42.	Mail Box: on the Topics	30
43.	Role of women in Society	64
44.	Mail Box: on the Topics	62
45.	Women of the Era	64
46.	Mail Box: on the Topics	38
47.	We and Our Society	4
48.	We and Our Environment	24
49.	Ruby te Amra: RVA Ruby Jubilee Special	6
50.	We and Our Environment	52
51.	Mail Box: on the Topics	10
52.	Environment and Bengal	24
53.	Mail Box: on the Topics	10
	Total	1810

•	Dilip Mazumder, programme producer
•	Motiur Rahaman, field officer
•	Atanu Das, office assistant.

	Concrete proposals are invited from NGOs and other governmental agencies to utilise these radio programmes available with Chitrabani, for non-commercial projects! Interested parties could contact the Director.
		Chitrabani organises Radio programme production workshops (often subsidised), twice a year. These workshops last for one week, and are residential. These workshops are intended for would-be producers of radio programmes. The participants would be initiated to theoretical and practical aspects of rural journalism, production of radio news, talks, interviews and skits.

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