Radio Brahmaputra

It was a proud moment for C-NES when the organization’s Brahmaputra Community Radio Station (BCRS) popularly known as Radio Brahmaputra won the Manthan Award South Asia and Asia Pacific on December 2014 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. What is remarkable about the station is that the entire team led by coordinator Bhaskar Bhuyan, did not have any previous training in journalism but developed as reporters through training after the idea of the station took shape. BCRS is based at Dibrugarh, very close to where the mighty river flows by at Maijan Ghat. The station is unique in that it caters to the needs and aspirations of people belonging to as many as five communities residing around the area in as many local languages – Shadri (dialect of the tea tribe community), Assamese, Bhojpuri, Bodo and Mishing. While BCRS seeks to reach the most marginalized groups on fourteen islands and thirty tea plantations and more than 180 villages in Dibrugarh district, its footprint reaches across the Brahmaputra to other districts as well. Today it broadcasts for eight hours every day on FM 90.4 from Dibrugarh and can be heard in three districts along and across the Brahmaputra.