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Kathmandu,Sunday February 06, 2000
Magh 23rd, 2056.
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Law
on journos’ interests soon
By
a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU,
Feb 5 - The upcoming session of parliament plans to enact a
legislation that will address problems faced by journalists and
publishers, according to an official at the Ministry of Information
and Communications.
The
bill on the right to information will ensure better distribution of
advertisements, problems faced by the press and help provide literary
journalists facilities similar to other journalists, according to
Purushottam Dahal, Media Advisor at the Ministry of Information and
Communication.
He
said a nine-member task force has already been formed to draft the
bill.
"The
government is preparing to table the bill in the upcoming session of
parliament," Dahal told a journalists’ organization here today.
"The bill will try to recognize problems faced by journalists and
recommend ways to address them."
At
the first general convention of Press Chautari, other speakers also
stressed on the need to review the country’s media policy in order
to address problems encountered by journalists.
Suresh
Acharya, president of Nepal Federation of Journalists said, "All
governments formed after the restoration of democracy in 1990 have
failed to enact legislation to safeguard the overall interest of
journalists."
Raghuji
Pant, CPN(UML) Member of Parliament, urged the government to hold a
public debate on provisions that should be made in the law.
State
Minister for Information and Communications, Govinda Bahadur Shah
said, "The government will completely change the present status
and management of the Department of Information within a year".
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