Minister for Communications and Info Expertise, Prithvi Subba Gurung. (File photograph)
KASKI: Minister for Communications and Info Expertise, Prithvi Subba Gurung, has laid emphasis on investigative journalism.
Throughout a dialogue on girls’s participation and improvement in journalism organized by the Ministry and the Sancharika Samuha Gandaki Province in Pokhara right this moment, Minister Gurung argued, “The content material can’t be factual if there isn’t a investigative journalism. So, all ought to pay heed to it.”
The folks have been getting misinformation in regards to the points associated to promotion of nationwide welfare as a result of misuse data expertise, he added.
Minister Gurung opined that the Ministry has been engaged on the way it might guarantee proper to data, make it systematic and dignified as RTI is the primary precedence of the residents.
Stating that they have been in a plan to maneuver forward in a brand new manner for the event of state-owned media, he confused the necessity of regulating the contents disseminating from social networking websites.
The Cupboard had handed cyber safety invoice so as to management cybercrime and the invoice can be introduced within the Home quickly, added the Communications Minister.
He talked about, “Media Council Invoice can be handed quickly and actions carried out in opposition to the code of conduct can be regulated.”
Additionally the Spokesperson of the federal government, Minister Gurung identified that each one sides ought to be delicate to finish the incorrect publicity of ‘nothing has occurred within the nation’.
The initiatives and actions carried out for general improvement of the nation by the federal government have been taken earlier than the Nepali viewers and readers.
He highlighted the federal government’s efforts to leverage the nation’s ample water assets for electrical energy technology, thereby making the nation economically sturdy.
The Minister shared that 98 per cent of the households throughout the nation had entry of electrical energy over the previous 35 years.
Likewise, Secretary Radhika Aryal famous the challenges going through the standard media as a result of wider use of ICT in journalism.
On the event, Minister Gurung awarded Commissioner on the Nationwide Info Fee, Durga Bhandari, with ‘Sancharika Patrakarita Puraskar-2079 BS’ and Rastriya Samachar Samiti’s journalist Januma Sharma with ‘Sancharika Patrakarita Puraskar-2080 BS’.
