EMMRC productions
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 29 2015:
All the audio-visual productions of the Educational Multi Media Research Centre (EMMRC), Manipur University would be soon telecast in DDK Imphal, ISTV Network and Impact TV.
An MoU was signed to this end at the office of the MU Vice-Chancellor with DDK Imphal, ISTV Network and Impact TV today.
The eight point MoU was signed MU Vice Chancellor Prof H Nandakumar, DDK Imphal Programme Executive head AK Khagendra, ISTV Network president Khamba Salam and Impact TV chief producer Rajesh Salam.
Prof H Nandakumar said that education related programmes produced by EMMRC would now be accessible to students, teachers as well as the general public.
In addition to classroom and enrichment based programmes, panel discussions, talk shows, interviews, career guidance programmes and campus news from different colleges would be telecast in the three TV channels.
Moreover films produced by EMMRC and its e-contents would be telecast from time to time, Prof Nandakumar said.
Till May this year, EMMRC has produced 739 films.
Some of the films produced by EMMRC and which have won awards at the national and international level include Imphal Battle, Dancing Drums, Chothe Gi Waiyu, Moibung Khongba, Kang, Perils of Loktak, the Miller of Haipi, Kuki Marriage and They Roar Like Lions.
EMMRC Director Dr M Premchand said that EMMRC was set up in 1989 and it was then called the Audio Visual Research Centre before it took the present name in 2004 .
EMMRC is one of the 23 such centres spread across the country.
Manipur was the first State in the North East region to open such a centre.
EMMRC programmes were earlier telecast in Doordarshan, Gyan Darshan and 24X7 Higher Education Channel of UGC-CEC.
But this mode of transmission through DTH could not reach majority of students, teachers and the general public.
Hence, MU authority tied up with DDK Imphal, ISTV Network and Impact TV, Dr Premchand said.
EMMRC productions would be telecast during prime time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The three TV channels would also enjoy the right for repeat telecast at any time slot of their convenience.
However, EMMRC would have the exclusive copyrights of all its productions, he added.