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PRIDE set to go on air

KOCHI: The Police Residents Association Initiative in District Ernakulam (PRIDE) is all set to go on air.

It has been decided to broadcast a half-an-hour interactive programme through the Kochi station of the All India Radio every Sunday. This initiative will be the first of its kind in the State.

The programme will start with an interactive session with Vinson M. Paul, Inspector-General of Police, Ernakulam Range.

C. Jayachandran Nair, Assistant Commissioner of Police, and P.K. Gopalakrishnan, secretary, Ernakulam District Residents Association Apex Council, have been selected as nodal officers for coordinating the programme.

“The first episode will be broadcast on February 10 at 3 p.m. The programme will also have segments for residents’ associations to present their programmes and for message by the police,” said R.C. Gopal, station director, AIR Kochi.

Programmes will be planned for the whole year in advance. This is being done to provide every resident association a chance to present their programme.

With this, PRIDE will once again be setting a model for resident association activities in the State. During the third anniversary of PRIDE, which was celebrated here in January as Janakeeyam 2008, another attempt to create a platform with different government organisations was made.

The council already has platforms of interaction with the KSEB and the KWA.

Now it is looking forward to establishing similar forums with the Department of Health, Excise and the RTO.

Details of the proposals will be worked out after this month’s PRIDE meeting, which is scheduled on every second Saturday.

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