India 2018

450 India 2018
This four month diploma course is highly sought after by mid career level
working journalists in Africa, Asia and Latin America and other developing
countries. The average intake of participants is 20-25 per batch. The Institute
organizes two such courses each year.
Short-term Courses, Workshops, Seminars and Conferences
With a view to contributing towards better understanding of different issues
pertaining to mass communication in the context of India and other
developing countries and in order to increase awareness about the emerging
techniques and sharpening their basic skills, the Institute has been organizing
a variety of short- term courses, workshops, seminars and conferences in
various areas of communication and media. The Institute runs regular shortterm
academic programmes for personnel of different media units of the
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. A number of specialized shortterm
courses, ranging from one week to 12 weeks’ duration, are also
conducted for meeting the professional training needs of defence officials
and those working in various media/publicity organizations of the central/
state governments and Public Sector Enterprises.
Apna Radio AR-I Community Radio : The Institute’s community radio
broadcasts on 96.9 MHz five days a week for two hours each day from 10.30
AM to 5.30 p.m. with a repeat broadcast from 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Apna
Radio has a range of 15 km around the Institute. The FM radio station has
a broadcast studio, two recording studios and several sound editing
workstations.
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited
www.becil.com
Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Ltd. (BECIL), a profit making PSE
was constituted in 1995 to provide the national broadcasters’ expertise to the
private broadcasters in the country. At present, BECIL is an established
consultancy agency, system integrator and turnkey solution provider in all
spheres of Broadcast Engineering. BECIL also undertakes operation and
maintenance of various types of broadcast systems. Its clients include
government, semi government, overseas and private organisations.
The area of specialisation of BECIL is as follows: establishment of radio
and TV transmitting facility including frequency and coverage planning,
prediction etc.; setting up state-of-the-art studio facilities for audio and
video including ethernet connectivity capable of transmitting live content
and data; establishment of cable TV systems and HITs (Head End In The
Sky) and wireline broadcasting; turnkey Solution for establishing community
radio stations; establishment from concept to commissioning of electronic
media monitoring solutions (Radio and TV Terrestrial or Satellite), and
security related Surveillance Set ups for GSM, CDMA and VSAT, sales and
support for all type of broadcast engineering equipment/system, design and
integration of outside broadcast vans (DSNG) with state-of-the- art