DD's Health Programme gets RAPA Award

New Delhi, May 23 (UNI) Doordarshan's Kalyani Health Campaign has yet another feather in its cap -- RAPA Award, 2005 in non-fiction category.

A project of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched in 2002, Kalyani is being produced by Doordarshan in nine States and telecast three times a week from 22 stations covering 50 per cent of the country's population.

Ms Usha Bhasin, Concept and Series Director of Kalyani, received the Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners' Association of India Ltd (RAPA) award at Mumbai on May 20.

Ms Bhasin has also been honoured by RAPA with the coveted trophy of the year of her ''All round contribution to Radio and Television''. She has more than 3000 hours of Radio and TV Programming, together with several pioneering broadcast projects, in the public service domain.

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