Bhopal: A group of 15 students from Makhanlal University have made YouTube channel ‘Ravivar Ki Baat’ to make youths aware about social and political issues across the world.
Launched in October 2017, the channel has made 48 videos on current social and political issues including Padmaavat, Pakuda, naxalism, terrorism, Ronhingya, education, employment, teen talaq, death of communists’ writers in Kerala and many more. The duration of these videos is 3 to 5 minutes. Till now, it has received 25,000 views and 15000 subscribers. It got highest views on Padmaavat and lowest on Pakoda remarks of Prime Minister Narendra Minister Narendra Modi. The second highest views were on teen talaq.
Founder of the Channel, Vibhav Dev Shukla said to Free Press, about the concept, “Nowadays most of the youths take interest knowing what Bollywood or Hollywood celebrities are doing, which colour of attire and footwear they wear. They don’t talk about the political and issues. A survey report of CSDS says there is youth awareness but not involvement.”
“I used to write post on Facebook on such issues but it was not much appealing. So, I decided to make You Tube Channel to aware the youth towards social and political issues. We all know that the impact of video is more than writing piece. ” the media student said. He further said, “I started it along but now we have 15 members including six anchors, two cinematographers, 2 managers, one graphic and video editor. I do scripting. For this, we have temporary studio in a flat where we live. We also have a DSLR camera, a laptop, and tripod.”
“Our content is not based any particular ideology. We keep on doing experiment on it. Recently we organised a media talk show ‘Social Sarokar’ and its topic was ‘Why the participation of youths in policy making is less. If it is less, how will it improve? For this we invited six speakers from media persons, educationist and social activists,” Shukla said.
Shulka said he doesn’t have to spend much for making the channel. He spent some amount to organise event from his pocket money. “We got good response but not much which we were expecting because youth take more interest to watch and read fun messages but not informative things. It is challenge for us and we will fight. We are planning to organise our second talk show in mid June,” Shulka said.
