Samachaar SMS News service from Department of JMC CDLU
SIRSA NEWS
25 July, 2008
Jansanchaar News Service
SIRSA
The department of mass communication of the Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, would soon launch news headlines service on SMS. Subscribers of the free service would get news update, in the form of latest headlines, twice or thrice a day on their cell phones. A proposal to this effect submitted by the department has been approved by the vice-chancellor Dr K.C. Bhardwaj. The proposed service has already been started on a trial basis for a select group of subscribers and would be soon launched formally.
Virender Singh Chauhan, chairman of the department of mass communication, said the scheme would be managed by the students, under the overall supervision of the faculty of the department.
Initially, two to three SMS news bulletins would be broadcasted everyday on the cell phones of the subscribers as per a fixed schedule.
These bulletins would contain headlines from local and state news to the national and international developments. The choice of content would be based on the importance of the events. People in and around the city would be able to subscribe to the service by sending a message “join samachaar” to 567678. The service would not only provide ample opportunity to journalism students to hone their skills, but also keep subscribers abreast with currents affairs of local, national and international importance. For training students, the department runs a news portal and has already started the process of establishing a Community Radio Station (CRS). The CRS would start broadcasting educational programmes at 90.4 Megahertz on FM band by November this year.
Chauhan said the CRS would be established in the Media Centre, a building being constructed to house a well-equipped television studio and a newsroom, apart from the CRS.
In addition, the department has been permitted to start two new courses with effect from this academic session (2008-09). The courses, being offered under Self Financing Scheme (SFS), are BA and a PG diploma in mass communication. While BAMC classes would be run in the morning session the PGDMC classes would be held in the evening. Both the courses would be based on a semester system, he added.
SIRSA NEWS
25 July, 2008
Jansanchaar News Service
SIRSA
The department of mass communication of the Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, would soon launch news headlines service on SMS. Subscribers of the free service would get news update, in the form of latest headlines, twice or thrice a day on their cell phones. A proposal to this effect submitted by the department has been approved by the vice-chancellor Dr K.C. Bhardwaj. The proposed service has already been started on a trial basis for a select group of subscribers and would be soon launched formally.
Virender Singh Chauhan, chairman of the department of mass communication, said the scheme would be managed by the students, under the overall supervision of the faculty of the department.
Initially, two to three SMS news bulletins would be broadcasted everyday on the cell phones of the subscribers as per a fixed schedule.
These bulletins would contain headlines from local and state news to the national and international developments. The choice of content would be based on the importance of the events. People in and around the city would be able to subscribe to the service by sending a message “join samachaar” to 567678. The service would not only provide ample opportunity to journalism students to hone their skills, but also keep subscribers abreast with currents affairs of local, national and international importance. For training students, the department runs a news portal and has already started the process of establishing a Community Radio Station (CRS). The CRS would start broadcasting educational programmes at 90.4 Megahertz on FM band by November this year.
Chauhan said the CRS would be established in the Media Centre, a building being constructed to house a well-equipped television studio and a newsroom, apart from the CRS.
In addition, the department has been permitted to start two new courses with effect from this academic session (2008-09). The courses, being offered under Self Financing Scheme (SFS), are BA and a PG diploma in mass communication. While BAMC classes would be run in the morning session the PGDMC classes would be held in the evening. Both the courses would be based on a semester system, he added.
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