Community Radio in Indigenous: A tool for sustainable development in India

Abstract

"Indigenous languages are not only a means of transmitting information within a community but also a tool to keep our culture, roots, memories, acts, traditions, habits, and bonds intact. Community Radio with its inherent feature of involving audience not only as consumers but also as producers of information, that too in their own local slang and dialect, could be a potential instrument to preserve native languages. The project explores through a case study of Sangham Radio 90.4FM (Community Radio Station in Telangana, India) how the use of local language in community radio could actively utilize and preserve native dialects, aboriginal identities and cultures while leading towards sustainable development. It further suggests ways to promote local languages through community radio."