Community Radio JIMS Vasant Kunj 90.4 MHz (India)
Community Radio JIMS Vasant Kunj 90.4 MHz is managed by the Jagannath Gupta Memorial Education Society[1] and is run by Jagannath International Management School, Vasant Kunj, an affiliated institute of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India.[2] It was established in 2005. The station is empanelled with Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP).[3] Community Radio JIMS Vasant Kunj is a campus radio but there is active involvement of community in producing the content. Being an educational institution radio, it is producing content for the local community, of the local community and by the local community.
Programming
Community Radio JIMS Vasant Kunj produces the content related to health and hygiene, with special focus on maternal and child care reproduction health and mental health, sanitation, agriculture, education, road safety, water conservation, rain water harvesting, folk culture and life, and women and children's rights. The program formats include talks, interviews, phone-ins, songs, poetry, stories, and chat-shows. There is active involvement of staff and student of journalism and mass communication in producing the content.
The Community Radio JIMS Vasant Kunj is also producing content on Radio Mathematics, a project funded by National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science and Technology (India).[4] It is aimed at producing 180 programmes on Radio Mathematics which are broadcast twice per day on a regular basis. The objective of these programmes is to make mathematics easy to understand for the local community people. It includes use of basic maths that is required to be implemented in daily lives of the community people.
Apart from Radio Mathematics, the station has also produced programmes on voter awareness under the project Systematic Voters' Education And Electoral Participation (SVEEP), funded by Election Commission of India in 2019.