Women, the reservoir of productive human resource constitutes almost half per cent of the countrys total population. In India health profile of women is very low due to lack of nutritional education. Poor nutrition that continues into pregnancy leads to low birth weight baby, infant death and maternal mortality. To improve the health of women, this requires massive education for women through proper and need based media. There are different media used for imparting nutritional education but all these are developed without knowing the socio-personal, communication characteristics of women and...

Community Radio broadcasting is nonprofit service that is owned and managed by a particular community, usually through a trust, foundation or association. Its aim is to serve and benefit that community. It is in effect, a form of public-service broadcasting, but it serves a community rather than the whole Nation, as is the usual form of public broadcasting. In the age of multimedia and online communication, the potential of community radio to provide for effective outreach to discuss and create demand for the internet has become even greater. By using community radio and browsing the internet...

Information and Communication Technology: Researches in Uttarakhand sets out to illustrate the application of ICTs for recasting development in India and several other developing societies. This path-breaking book explores the applications of ICTs in ruraldevelopment. Another major focus of the book is the implication of Information Communication tolls as Mobile Phone, Media Mix,Television, e- Chaupal and Community Radio in the era of globalization. The book raises several fundamental questions on development policy and communication research and responds to the polemic issue of bridging the...