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Bihar Government acted swiftly at least one time but for a reason that we cannot be proud of.

This time it quickly turned off the radio station of an young entrepreneur because it was considered illegal. Important point is that this was brought into highlight by some web sites that turned out to be a case of "Raksha mai Hatya".

While closing an illegal business for government is not such controversial and bad thing in a state where "chakala", "daru ka adda", and kidnapping is going unabated and the government is taking help of Yoga Guru to reduce crime and giving amnesty to murderers and robbers, closing a radio station by an young, semi-literate and entrepreneur individual seems any thing but reasonable.

Is there some ulterior motive behind this? Was there no other alternative? If a person can run a successful radio station without any reasonable investment there can be a question on legality of his business but not on his ability and entrepreneurship. Was their no avenue to help him in making his business legal or at least providing him with a viable option otherwise?

I have heard that some American is planning to help him. I don't know if any help reached him or not but I am worried that nothing will happen and that person will be either left in penury or will be forced to do something more illegal.

After all why Biharis are so helpless? Thousands of people can lecture about Bihar then why nothing is actually done?

I would request PatnaDaily to write name and address of this person so that some help can be provided to him so that either he can legalize his radio station or do something else where he can use his skill positively. I will also request all PatnaDaily readers to do something about it and just don’t keep thinking.

If anybody can send me his address I am willing to help him.

If this person's radio station is closed and nothing concrete is done for him this will send a very wrong signal that in Bihar only guns and bullets works.

Comments:

I agree with you, Pandey Jee. This kind of act cannot be reasonable, if it has happened. Numerous illegal businesses are flourishing in Bihar, which are impeding the development of youth and society. In this scenario, government's prime concern should not be an illegal radio station. This does not seem to be a fair act, without any ulterior motive. I think, if we want to help him, we should help him legalize his radio station, if possible. Would you please, provide the link to this news. - Rakhee Sinha - Mar. 28, 2006

We all have great expectation from Mr. Nitish Kumar and we are ready to give him extended honeymoon. But this incident has left a bad taste in mouth. It should have been handled in a different way. Poor chap must not be aware of the legalities of his enterprise. He should have been told about that and financial help extended. Instead of doing that govt simply closed his venture.

Now that it has come to our notice we can probably pull out something and send him financial help. I request to local readers to contact him somehow and display his address, bank account on Patna Daily. - Anjum Parwej - Mar. 29, 2006

Very good article Raviji. After reading your article I searched for this news in Google and I got some information regarding this news.

Radio channel name was radio "Radio Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1" run by Sri Raghav Mahto. On this radio station he was playing some good old Hindi song, Polio adds, AIDS awareness news, news about local crime and many other informative news. So what was wrong with all these, of course he doesn't has licence which is required for radio station. So government has done a great job, they've closed the radio station and seized all the equipments too. What else you can expect from these people(all Netas).

Sri Mahto's father is suffering from cancer.

As Raviji has suggested to help this poor man I seconds his opinion. I'll try to find his proper address, if anybody else come to know about address please share with this forum. Lets try to do something different this time with the help of "PatnaDaily.Com" . I'll keep updating from my side . - Guneshwar Anand - Mar. 29, 2006

Very nice article and very pertinent question.

Let us pause and think, why are there no FMs in our country outside the metros? Why is the technology available for so many decades still not in use? Radio Raghav may be illegal per existing laws, but who is culpable, Raghav or the govt machinery which manages the spectrum? Do we have to live with laws that are so out of date and archaic?

For far too long, we have let laws govern us without applying our mind to it. Today's The Economic Times has a news about stretch limos and how law in New Jersey allowed only 12 passengers. However, today's stretch limos are much bigger can accommodate many more, even up to 22. The legislature swung into action and changed the law. Why cant we have such proactive legislation rather than condemn a grass root innovator to illegality?

Raghav is in august company - history is replete with such instances. Galileo had to apologize to the church for saying the earth goes round the sun; Sam Pitroda's crusade to usher telecom revolution had interesting fall outs. Responsible people argued PCOs would lead to higher criminal activities. Ultimately, they all had a happy ending. Hope this also ends up successful.

Meanwhile, let us ask ourselves - What can we do to lobby to change such archaic laws? - Thakur Vikas Sinha, Powai, Mumbai - Mar. 30, 2006

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