TELEVISION VIEWING HABITS OF THE STUDENTS OF BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY

In 1956, the general conference of UNESCO held in New Delhi proposed that a pilot project should be implemented in India to study the use of TV as a medium of education rural uplift and community development. At least in 1956 an agreement was signed between AIR and UNESCO for starting the project as an experiment in order to assess the value of different types of educational Television Programmes suitable for group viewing in rural and urban communities in such a way that results of such an assessment may be useful not only for India but also for other Asian Countries in the use of Television for community for education