Kathmandu: Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Jagadish Kharel, has shared various achievements made in three months. Three months have passed since he took charge of the Communications Ministry. Organising a press conference at the Ministry in Singha Durbar on Sunday, Minister Kharel made public 30 achievements made on topics ranging from telecommunications to information technology, postal service, printing, and film in the last three months.
According to National News Agency Nepal, the ministry had remarkable performance during this period, Minister Kharel argued, adding, “These achievements are gained amidst challenges. We will work honestly in coming days.” Significant works like online registration and renewal from the Department of Information and Broadcasting, printing driving licenses from the security printing press to communication access established in remote areas, and expansion of 4G services at the Sagarmatha Base Camp were carried out, according to Minister Kharel.
The launch of NTV World, declaring late journalist Suresh Rajak as a martyr, publishing news and other content in the Kulung language in Gorkhapatra, and providing free internet service at 10 public places in Kathmandu Valley were others on the list. The process is in place to install WiFi at 29 places outside the Kathmandu Valley, he added.
Honoring the journalists who braved the Gen Z movement and affiliating the journalists and staff at State media to the social security fund also count in the achievements. Meanwhile, Minister Kharel has informed that the government was planning to register and list online televisions so that professional safety and institutional development could be bolstered.
During a meeting with online TV journalists at the Ministry on Sunday, Minister Kharel pledged the government incentives equal to the mainstream media to the online TVs and journalists. However, the Minister shared the plight that the government had no exact data on the number of online TV and the journalists working on these media, which, he argued, had hindered state incentives to them as part of the public welfare advertisement.