ABU NEWS
India’s Doordashan wins Japan Prize
My Classroom during the Japan Prize award ceremony in Tokyo on 27 October. The TV proposal prize is given to an entry which excels at fostering literacy and education, contributing to the spread of basic education. It offers a citation, US$3,000 and support to make the programme.
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ABU News spoke with Doordarshan’s Special Correspondent Emani Krishna Rao about his proposal, which bagged him his sixth major international award.
“With the globalisation of the Indian economy, many youngsters are shifting to urban areas and not showing any interest in agriculture. This is a dangerous trend for a country which has traditions of (agricultural) biodiversity and self sufficiency in grain production,” Mr Rao explained.
“As India is on the threshold of becoming a major economy like China, I feel it is my duty as a public broadcaster to remind the younger generation about the importance of food production in a developing economy.”
Mr Rao’s programme revolves around a little girl who wants to reconnect to age-old traditions, crop cultivation methods and foods. She wants
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DI-India was awarded a Special Prize for My Farm,
Leading Sri Lankan broadcaster dies
Prominent Sri Lankan broadcaster Mano Wikra- manayake died in Colom- bo at the age of 62.
Mr Wikramanayake died on 3 December while be- ing taken to hospital after he had collapsed.
He was Group Director, Electronic Media Busi- ness, of the Maharaja Group (MTV), which runs three terrestrial television channels, four FM radio stations and three TV production companies.
to film her grandmother in the village, who works over 12 hours a day cultivating over 20 crops annually, despite being 85 years old. The programme highlights the importance of chemical- free agriculture, the importance of biodiversity and autonomous food production.
“I plan to shoot from December to February and complete post production by May,” he said. “I would like to follow it up by per- suading the government to make environmental education part of the curriculum in schools. If children learn about the environment and tradi- tional cultivation methods, I am sure they will revive all the wonderful crops that were planted just few years back.
“The practice of mono- cropping must give way to multicropping and I am sure the youngsters will show the way.”
He was directly respon- sible for all the group’s media operations. He was also part of the team responsible for strategic planning for the group and a member of all the boards of directors of the group’s companies.
Mr Wikramanayake began his working life as an accountant before moving into the media. He was a board mem- ber and former Vice President of the Com- monwealth Broadcasting Association.
His death came only a few weeks after he took an active part in the ABU’s annual meetings in New Delhi in November, making a number of presentations.
New staff at ABU
Straits Times and Media 7, an online media firm.
Farouk
Farouk Irhamshah Ku- hairi joined the Secre- tariat in September as Asiavision Coordinator.
A Malaysian, Farouk grew up in the United States. Prior to join- ing Asiavision, he was a news editor at MalaysiaKini, an online news portal. He previously worked for the Malaysian daily New
In November, Syamsul Azran Shamsudin joined the ABU as the Systems Support Officer.
He specialises in technical support for networks, internal server systems and database administration.
Syamsul
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