Muzaffarpur: In a state where beating up and killing of women after branding them as witches is common, an all-women 'news channel' is creating waves in the rural backwaters of Bihar.
'Appan Samachar' (Our News), an all-women weekly news programme, has become a hit in Ramlila Gachhi and over a dozen adjoining villages in Paru Block of Muzaffarpur district ever since its launch last month.
Unlike flashy studios of private news channels, its rural cousin works from an asbestos-roofed room having a wooden table, two chairs and a portable TV.
Its reporters, Ruby Kumari and Anita Kumari (both 20), move around Ramlila Gachhi and its adjoining villages six days a week carrying a Sony handycam, a tripod and a microphone in hand to gather news.
Later, they show a 45-minute bulletin on the TV using a video cassette player powered by a battery at the weekly fair in the village. The village has no electricity, no landline phone connections. The programme is shown once a fortnight.
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