- In India there are around 857 television channels and 837 radio stations in different cities. But how many of them cover the issues, events, achievements, tortures, schemes, facilities, laws, etc. pertaining to disable community?
- How many of them talk about the sexual abuse faced by visually impaired females, domestic violence or non-availability of proper opportunities for disabled?
- They all are busy covering the celebrities and politicians and nobody is interested in the issues of pwd’s and we are the ones who are neglected the most in our country.
- Don’t we deserve the same rights, same facilities, and same opportunities as the so called normal people do?
- Though government issues schemes for pwd’s but about how much of them we know and avail?
- Here came the need of radio udaan...There are nearly 13 million Blind / partially sighted peoples which means one out of 90 Indians is either blind or partially sighted.
- We started this radio station as the main stream media used to ignore issues related to visually impaired people and nothing was used to be done in order to spread awareness, help us to fight for our rights, make us available the opportunities which are said to be available according to the government, and no one was there with us to fight for our rights. We didn't knew what all opportunities were available and how to avail the benefits provided by the government. No media was interested in covering the hurdles and obstacles we were facing in our day to day life and the issues pertaining to disabled were not at all covered with the enthusiasm required.
- All this needed to be changed so someone had to come up and we thought of starting our own radio station in order to serve our community with the information, skills, awareness, entertainment and raise the issues which were otherwise ignored by the society. We wanted the society to know what we were facing and what we deserved. We wanted everyone to know that we are capable of doing many things provided the society accept us.
- So we were the first ever radio station for and by visually impaired people but designed to entertain masses.
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