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EMRC, 50 Circus Avenue, Kolkata 700 017. Ph. 91-33-22874869 Fax. 91-33-2289-1373

EMRC St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata is part of a large family of EMRCs spread across India. This family has in fact 18 members, including the head office at New Delhi. The other members are at Srinagar, Roorkee, Patiala, Jodhpur, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Indore, Sagar, Imphal, Pune, Mysore, Chennai, Madurai, Calicut and two at Hyderabad.

All the centres come under the purview of the university of that particular place. In Hyderabad one is with the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) and the other is with Osmania University. It is only the Kolkata EMRC that comes under the purview of St. Xavier’s college.

All funding – both for running expenses and equipment – comes from the University Grants Commission. The coordination of production, telecast and other programme related affairs is done by the Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), New Delhi. The administration is done by the host university/college.



Programmes Of EMRC

Since its inception EMRC Calcutta has made 1178 programmes till February 2006. What are some of the programmes? There are all kinds – Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Environment, Culture, Agriculture, Anthropology, Botany, Biology, Biography and so on. The most successful series was QUESTION TIME that went into 150 episodes. This generated a lot of viewer participation because QUESTION TIME answered academic queries of students. The other significant series are COUNTRYSIDE CHRONICLE where one looked at the happenings in the villages; HEALTHLINE ran into over 30 episodes and dealt with health, medicine and treatment. JUST SUPPOSE was a series meant to make people think about the values they hold and cherish. FACES IN THE CROWD was a series that looked at the extraordinary life of ordinary people. EXPLORING EDEN dealt with environment. In addition to this hardcore educational programmes on individual topics too have been made.

With the coming of Vyas, the 24-hour higher education channel, it was felt that direct syllabus and textbook based programmes were required. An attempt was made to make these programmes and by now we have covered about ten papers in six subjects. But audience research has shown that these programmes are not very much appreciated. Therefore now the production style has changed.
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