Ravenshaw Radio goes air

After almost 10 months of trial run ‘Ravenshaw Radio’, a community FM radio channel of the prestigious Ravenshaw University in Cuttack today went on air when the varsity vice-chancellor Devdas Chhotray inaugurated it in a brief ceremony.

Inaugurating the radio channel, now run entirely by the students of the University, Chhotray hoped that Ravenshaw Radio would soon turn out to be very own channel of Cuttack city highlighting the Millennium city’s cultural tradition.

The radio channel is now available to FM radio users within 8 to 10 kms radius from the university campus; Chhotray said adding that the channel would be available on 90.4 MHz.

Initially, the radio channel would be broadcasting programmes for only three hours a day from 4 pm to 7 pm. The same programmes are repeated again on the next day from 9am to noon, sources said.

Besides career counseling and academic activities, the channel is now broadcasting community-based programmes like music and songs, interactive sessions, phone-in and interviews.

Faculty members are delivering lectures and instructions on curricular subjects on the radio which is going to serve as virtual classroom teachings. Community based programmes for social development would get top priority while career consultants and placement experts’ phone-in programmes would benefit immensely to the students, said the coordinator of the radio programme Netaji Abhinandan.

Similarly, the vice-chancellor also on the day inaugurated the University’s new Administrative Block built at a cost of Rs3 crore. The three-storied Block having a combined plinth area of over 40,000 square feet and housing over 50 rooms and halls would house the administrative office of the varsity and all computer-based classrooms of different departments, sources said.