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Broadcast – Television Serial

Maha Chautari, educational TV serial broadcasts details of conflict situations at local level with local solutions. The storylines of MaHa Chautari generally are taken from radio drama Maha Adalat and Maha Chautari. The TV serial is being produced collaboratively by Antenna Foundation Nepal and Maha Sanchar and partly supported by The Asia Foundation. Each programme is 30 minute long broadcasted every Saturday from NTV after its 8 pm news. Broadcast of Maha Chautari TV serial started in February 2006. According to Nepal Television popularity survey (2005-2006, Phase III, Kathmandu Valley) MaHa Chautari ranks fourth on the most popular television show (1114 household). Fifty five percent of the NTV viewers regularly watch MaHa Chautari.

MaHa Chautari: Television Serial

Following the popularity of the radio drama MaHa Adalat, Antenna and MAHA Sanchar are collaborating for production and airing of 42 episode of MAHA Chautari on television.

Each programme is 30 minute long broadcasted every Saturday from NTV after its 8 pm news. Programme aims to provide Nepali television viewers with educational television serials that show them the details of a local conflict situation and inform them about the possibilities for action in their communities and their lives.

Earlier format of radio drama was more of a court setting held by the duo Haribansha Acharya and Madankrishan Shrestha in different parts of Nepal. Issues of MaHa Chautari are based on this storyline for the Chhinophano radio programme. The artists have already done over 200, 10 minute radio dramas. The storylines are selected from the best dramas aired through the radio programmes.

The focus of television series have been on different social issues at the grass root level and at the same time provide the target audience with tools of peace building techniques.

Issues covered in Maha Chautari include:
1.	Beli Chameli- Conflict Widows and issue of re-marriage (5 episodes)
2.	SLC- Issue of disparity between government and private schools and number of students passing SLC (4 episodes)
3.	Manche- Issue of exclusion from economic activities, untouchables, and their social sufferings during the conflict (2 episodes: two episodes repeated due to Jana Andolan)
4.	Tika Ram Bisthapit- Issue of forced displacement due to armed conflict, resettlement and integration of IDPs (4 episodes)
5.	Dhan Prasad- Scarcity of medicines at the local level, local doctors cheating patients by providing fake and expired medicine and access to medical services, a fantasy story about side effects of expired medicine (3 episodes)
6.	Sino- Issue of managing dead animals especially in the Terai belt of Nepal, conflict between local people and so called untouchable to manage the dead bodies of animals (3 episodes)
7.	Dakarmi- Issue of migration, available alternatives in Nepal and sufferings of those who are working in Middle East and South East Asia countries (5 episodes)