Urdu university educational programmes on AIR

Indo-Asian News Service
Hyderabad, January 08, 2009

The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) will now offer distance education programmes for its students over state owned All India Radio (AIR). The directorate of distance education of the university Tuesday entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AIR in this regard. To start with, a half-an-hour long programme will be broadcast every Sunday at 5 p.m. by 31 AIR stations in seven states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka , Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. "The programme will go on air Jan 9, which is the foundation day of MANUU," university vice-chancellor A.M. Pathan told a news conference after signing the MoU with P.S. Gopalakrishna, station director, AIR, Hyderabad. The vice-chancellor said the duration of the programme would be increased depending on the response from the students. Last year, the university had launched its educational programmes on Doordarshan Urdu channel. "We started with the telecast of one programme a week but the number of programmes per week has gone up to four following the tremendous response it received from students," he said.

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