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Kathmandu Sunday January 20, 2002 Magh 07, 2058.
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Digital recording of
newspapers fails to make headway
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Jan 19: The preparation for a digital
recording of Nepalese newspapers is going on at a snail’s pace as the Nepal Press
Council (NPC) faces the problem of required budget, equipment and manpower, according to
NPC chairman Harihar Birahi.
"The process of recording old newspaper
pages in CD-Roms is going on slowly due to the lack of budget, sufficient scanners and
needed manpower," said NPC chairman Harihar Birahi.
The NPC last year started recording newspapers
in CD-Roms with the objective of preserving old newspapers in modern digital technology.
The NPC has a plan to prepare a digital record of the newspapers since 1973 within five
years.
However, this objective of NPC seems far from
achieved in the fixed time as NPC is carrying out the process in the face of acute budget
crunch, manpower and scanner machine that will be fit for broad sheets. Furthermore, there
is only one scanner for tabloids.
And the process is likely to be hit worst this
year as the government has cut NPC budget recently by Rs 3 million.
"It will take more than 15 years if the
present pace of recording is not improved", adds chairman Birahi. There are more than
3 million newspaper pages waiting to be recorded in digital technology.
Meanwhile, UNESCO is going to help the recording
process. "We have signed for the assistance of Rs1.6 million with the UNESCO,"
Birahi said.
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