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Campus-based radio reaches a milestone

Tuned to success:The Radio Macfast team on the Macfast campus in Thiruvalla.

PATHANAMTHITTA: The State's first campus-based community radio station, Radio Macfast-90.4, launched by the Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies, Thiruvalla (Macfast), will celebrate its first anniversary on Monday.

The celebrations will be held at the college auditorium at Thukalasserry, near Thiruvalla, on Monday.

Radio Macfast has gained popularity in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha and Kottayam districts.

The mission is to exploit the potential of community radio in the socio-economic development of the region by effectively utilising youth power with the help of modern technology, said Principal Abraham Mulamoottil, who is the chairman of Radio Macfast, and Pradeep Vazhatharamalayil, manager.

The service has made many fruitful attempts to tap the human resource potential of this highly literate region, making the radio a people's channel of interaction and sharing, they said.

George Mathew, station director, said the social networking programmes aired by Radio Macfast had been receiving good public response and participation.

Programmes on health care, environment conservation, heritage, “successline,” farming, youth power, women's world, children's time, literature, moral talks, legal awareness and socially relevant entertainment programmes had proved to be hits both in rural and urban areas. “We are very particular that every programme aired on Radio Macfast should be rooted in the spirit of sharing and our well-knit team, comprising professionals as well as students, have succeeded in making it a partner friend of the local populace,” Fr. Mulamoottil said. The service focusses on a low-cost and low-return pattern of operation, aimed at educating and entertaining the people in their own language, he added.

The students at Macfast and nearby educational institutions get a chance to fine-tune their talents through the radio station.

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