Srinagar, March 29 -- The community radio station - Radio CUKashmir 90.8 FM - was launched by the university's Chancellor Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain - a former Corps Commander of the Srinagar-based Army's strategic Chinar Corps - at the varsity's Tulmulla campus.

Lt Gen (Retd) Hasnain described the community radio as a transformative medium that not only supplements and promotes education among the masses but also plays a pivotal and critical role in combating the social evils, challenges and malpractices like drug abuse, corruption, rampant suicides and raises awareness about the natural disasters.

"Community radio is a medium which reaches to the unreached," he said. Hailing the University for launching the community radio, he sai...