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Taking it a step further is an upcoming 24-hour channel, Youth TV, which will allow students to blog, chat, and even make their videos, besides regular dose of tutoring.
The channel is an initiative of the privately owned Amity University, Noida, and is the first foray by a university in the entertainment media segment.

Slated for launch in the next six to eight months with an investment of Rs 100 crore over the next three to five years, Youth TV, its promoters say, will not only air education programmes but also help students select the right courses. Alongside, a dedicated portal would serve as a platform for students to post videos for sharing, blog on issues close to their hearts, and even chat.

“Youths today are very media-savvy (so) this would be the convergence of television, Internet and mobile technology,” channel CEO Aseem Chauhan said. “While television has constraints of being one way, the combination of different forms of media will make education much more interactive.”

The channel will compete with Gyan Darshan and Vyas, both part of the Doordarshan network. While both are 24-hour education networks, they continue to suffer from low viewership — Vyas is broadcast for undergraduate students; Gyan Darshan has been allotted fixed slots on DD and airs programmes for school and college students.

Youth TV comes seven years after Zee TV’s education network Zed TV was shut down. But what makes Chauhan optimistic about the sustainability of the initiative is that the Youth TV will involve the 45,000-strong community of university students as educators in the project. “We will initially begin with a core group of professionals who can guide the students,” Chauhan said. “But the large part of our team would constitute of students.”

“Since we are in education sector, we know the pulse of the youth. Our content will find resonance in the young generation.”

The university’s Noida campus already has part of the infrastructure, set up for its various courses in journalism, mass communication and cinematography.

Chauhan said while advertisements would be one of the major means of revenue generation, online courses and distance-learning programmes would also sustain the channel.

RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 5308
TO BE ANSWERED ON 12-5-2005

5308 SHRI R.K. ANAND:

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a) whether it is a fact that Red Alert Notice by Interpol and International Warrants have been issued by German authorities against Indians for alleged fraud committed by Indians in Germany;

(b) whether Government has received any request/warrants from German Authorities for extradition of many businessmen in India; and

(c) what steps are being taken by Government to execute such warrants?

ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI E. AHAMED)

(a) Yes, Sir, valid warrants of arrest issued by German Judicial authorities against S/Shri Ashok Kumar Chauhan and Arun Kumar Chauhan, Directors of AMITY International, Ghaziabad, U.P. exist and the Interpol has issued Red-Corner-Notice Nos. 453/1990 and 459/1998 respectively at the request of Interpol Wiesbaden.

(b) Yes, Sir. The Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in India at New Delhi has requested for legal assistance in serving documents/extradition of Ashok Kumar Chauhan and Arun Kumar Chauhan.

(c) As per Article 6 of the Extradition Treaty between the Republic of India and the Federal Republic of Germany neither of the Contracting States shall be bound to extradite its own nationals. However, as per the same article, criminal prosecution may be effected, in India. Therefore, Ministry of Home Affairs, which is the nodal Ministry in such matters have been requested to proceed in accordance with law.