Nepal 1 TV closes Kathmandu office

The staffers of the Delhi based Nepal 1 television channel have formed a new committee to launch protests demanding appointment letters, salary increment and regular pay after the management closed its Kathmandu office Tuesday.

The struggle committee is scheduled to hold discussion with officer of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) Thursday before beginning the protest programmes.

Journalists stopped working from Tuesday accusing the management of failing to implement the agreement reached last year.

FNJ chairman Dharmendra Jha, who reached the TV's Kathmandu office, told reporters in a press meet that federation would fight for the rights of the agitating media persons.

Meanwhile, in a statement, a senior producer of the channel, Hakikat Kadian, claimed that he had received death threat from the agitating journalists.

"Several persons, identifying themselves as employees of the channel, threatened to kill me and assaulted me on Monday," he said in the statement. He further said to protest against the unprofessional behavior, he and another colleague have decided to go on fast confining themselves in the studio of the TV channel. nepalnews.com ia July 16 08