• KISHOR WAYKAR
• Lalit Shetty

Prime purpose, identified by researchers, of the community radio is to help with communities’ local problems which overlooked by the commercial media. Aiming this, researchers identified the theme for the program to be radio broadcasted. This was related to an infectious disease, which is very common problem of the like communities identified by the researchers from Pune region. Information in the community meetings disseminated through puppetry presented by collegestudents. This community radio program using FTII Community Radio was conducted with the support from anganwadis (Pre-primary schools), hospital, and NGO as well. Present study is part of the program that included a three-day training program on tuberculosis awareness for ten community radios.This study applied a combination of descriptive cross-sectional and exploratory design concluding that the symptoms of TB were understood by the identified and targeted community.

CommunityRadio, Tuberculosis, Podcast Solution for Infectious Diseases, Success of Community Radio Program

"A Case of Creating Awareness about Tuberculosis through Community Radio", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.500-505, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906H52.pdf

"A Case of Creating Awareness about Tuberculosis through Community Radio", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp500-505, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906H52.pdf