[WSIS CS-Plenary] Bangladesh: Official Letter to BTRC and HomeMinistry for Frequency Allocation and Security Permit for 116Community Radio

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Bangladesh: Official Letter to BTRC and Home Ministry for Frequency Allocation and Security Permit for 116 Community Radio

An official letter has been sent to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and Home Ministry to allocate frequency and to issue security permit for the selected 116 community radio stations. Ministry of Information sent the letter to BTRC and Home Ministry on Wednesday 23 July 2008. 

Primarily 116 organizations were identified as eligible of policy approval for community radio in a meeting of the National Regulatory Committee held in the Ministry of Information on Tuesday 15 July, 2008. 

Sources said, after getting security permit from the Home Ministry, Ministry of Information will send letter of approval to the applicant organizations. Then BTRC will allocate frequency accordingly for the concerned community radio stations and Ministry of Information will issue license to the approved ones. The organizations then have to take no-objection certificate from Information Ministry for importing necessary instruments and equipments for the station. 

The Chief Advisor's Office sources said, Chief Advisor Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmad is in charge of the Ministry of Information, so he might inaugurate the widely discussed community radio auspiciously. That is why; Government is trying to approve the community radio stations as soon as possible. 



Bazlu
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AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
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Member, Strategy Council
UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)
 
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