Bhubaneswar ,18/7 ( Odosha
Samachar Bureau ) - Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), an American TV channel
having the highest TRP, featured Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS)
prominently in its programme on July 16, 2013. The programme, which is now
available on the channel's website, was broadcast during PBS News Hour in all
the states of the United States as well as in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam
and American Samoa.
PBS had sent its special
correspondent Fred De Sam Lazaro to KISS after learning from its sources that
the institute provides education in a fully residential setting free of cost to
20,000 tribal children. Lazaro arrived in Bhubaneswar on February 26 to gather
more information on the institute. PBS team visited KISS and interacted with
its Founder, Achyuta Samanta to find out the truth about KISS. After three days
of investigation, the programme was recorded.
On July 16, a 20-minute programme
on KISS titled “Entrepreneur Offers India's Aboriginal Children Opportunity to
Attend School” was finally broadcast. The programme touched 120 million TV
viewers as well as 29 million people on internet, who were surprised to know
that there is an institution like KISS in the world.
PBS, which was started in 1969 as
a private broadcasting channel, now has 357 member stations. This is the first
time any institution from Odisha has featured on this channel, said Non
Resident Odias (NROs) settled in America. Expressing their pride and
admiration, they congratulated Samanta for this noble initiative. Such coverage
of an institution of Odisha during prime time of a prominent American news
channel is a matter of pride for Odisha and tribal community, said
intellectuals, while recalling another achievement of KISS recently when a
student of the institute represented India in Malala Day UN Youth Assembly in
New York.
Samanta has expressed gratitude
to PBS and its correspondent Lazaro for highlighting the noble activities of
the institute at international level.
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Open following link to watch the
full 20-min programme on KISS
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec13/kalinga_07-16.html
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