Amateur Radio Newsline International Newsmaker Award for 2022
Congratulations once again to the West Bengal Radio Club of Kolkata India, Newsline's International Newsmaker for 2022. Operating on a thin budget, sometimes with borrowed radio equipment, the club has consistently provided communications during cyclones, after earthquakes, at major public events and to reunite missing family members with loved ones. The club also teaches its members valuable emergency-response skills that help save lives. This past year, those skills helped prevent a different kind of tragedy: They assisted law enforcement in locating and rescuing a woman who had been kidnapped and was about to be handed over to a human-trafficking ring. The stories we have given our listeners this past year about this club's efforts show that its commitment to public service, like their energy, knows no limits. All of us at Amateur Radio Newsline salute this group for its combination of technology and humanity.