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Proposals For Managing State-run Media Agencies
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 17, 2012: the Nepalese government has been running the print media: the Gorkhapatra Corporation for publishing newspapers, and other literary journals, visual media: Nepal Television, audio media: Nepal Radio, and news agency: Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS). The Ministry of information and Communications holds the keys to the management of these media agencies.
In the past probably even now, the government has abused these media agencies. The government has used the state-run media to cover up the misdeeds of the ministers, and high-level state officials. So, Nepalis read the news and listen to the radio and watch the TV run by the government with some reservations in the past.
Speaking at an interaction event held by the Media Employees' Union, Nepal in Kathmandu today, representatives of different unions of Gorkhapatra Corporation, Radio Nepal, Nepal Television and Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS) have spoken out their ideas on running the state-run different media, according to the RSS news.
Some speakers said that the government needed to transform the state-run media into private limited companies selling the shares to the public while others said that the government needed to give an autonomy to these state-owned media for managing them efficiently, according to thehimalayantimes.com.
At the same time, the high-level commission set up by the government on September 13, 2012 has started off working on to find out the means of making the media inclusive, according to the RSS news.
The 19-member commission has formed three sub-committees to carry out the study of the electronic, print and media agencies. Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Information and Communications Sushil Kumar Ojha is the coordinator of the commission. The commission could not start its work due to the delay in the nomination of representatives from various bodies, according to the news on thehimalayantimes.com.
The commission has 45 days to complete its tasks of analyzing the current status of inclusiveness in the state-run and private media, and make recommendations on various aspects of media to improve the inclusiveness in them.
