Achievements & Awards

Manthan Award Year 2012

The radio station greatly contributes to making unheardvoices heard and to solve the everyday problems important tothe communities in reach of the radio station.

The roots of Henvalvani Community Radio, Chamba in Tehri district in Uttarakhand,werelaid in September 2001 when a group of young rural youth came together in anattempt to find a distinct voice of their own. The Himalaya Trust, an NGO based inDehradun conducted radio training sessions with the group, teaching them the basicsof recordings with the goal to especially focus on highlighting the needs of their localcommunities. For the group members, making topical programs and airing the in thehill villages, was a first step towards an information revolution. Not having any steadyplatform to air their programs from,the group initially used to narrowcast its programs,with group members traveling from village to village encouraging people to come, listen,contribute and join the discussions after airing them program. After twelve years ofgroundwork, the station finally got its broadcasting license in 2012 and began broadcastingon the 3rd of March. Since its inception,Henvalvani has worked on various kinds of programs, all contextual and community centric in nature like awareness campaigns,for example, programs documenting traditional practices, environmental history andpeople’s movements in the valley, health issues, stories of migration to the cities andmany more. The radio station greatly contributes to making unheard voices heard andto solve the everyday problems important to the communities in reach of the radiostation.

Manthan Award 2006

Henvalvani got this award

Getting first manthan award for Community Radio