When 4-G service was launched in 073, it was planned to be expanded to the entire country by February 076, but it is still incomplete.
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The Ministry of Communication and Information has completed more than the target in a period of 100 days. Communications Minister Prithvisubba Gurung claims that he has completed not only 100 percent but 117 percent of the responsibilities assigned to his ministry by the Prime Minister's Office.
Publishing the list of achievements of the first 100 days of the formation of the government, the ministry has claimed that the problems in the appointment and administrative process that have been stuck for a long time have been resolved, as well as the implementation of various sectoral reforms in telecommunication, broadcasting and postal services.
'We have succeeded in achieving more progress than the target we tried to achieve in 100 days,' Gajendra Kumar Thakur, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Communication said, 'In this period, we have been able to increase the 4G LTE service users from 70 percent to 72 percent, but we have only increased it by 5 percent.' He said, 'Looking at it in numbers, adding 6 lakh customers in three months is not a small achievement for the communication sector.' He said that when the ministry completed the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) expansion work in Humla, connectivity reached all 77 district headquarters of the country.
'At present, the Ministry of Communication is the only ministry which has been able to pass two bills related to its scope of work as laws within three months,' Thakur added, 'a lot of procedural and routine work remains to be done, how much can be completed within 100 days and . But I think that we worked at a good pace during this period.'
In the progress report of the current government's first hundred days published by the Ministry of Communication, the Ministry stated that 30 agencies have already been trained for the implementation of the concept of paperless government in 20 more agencies for the implementation of the integrated office management system.
It is mentioned that the security of systems, software, websites, web applications, mobile applications of five entities have been audited and fixed broadband services have been expanded to 43.75 percent.
Optical fiber (over 24 cores) has been extended by 1 thousand kilometers to reach 16 thousand kilometers and mobile service has been extended to 97.25 percent of the population, according to the Ministry of Communication. Another 8 years of old publications of Gorkhapatra have been digitally converted, 1000 more old audio tapes of Radio Nepal have been digitally converted, inclusive programs in Rana Tharu language have been published in Gorkhapatra, programs and news broadcast in Nepali language, Danuwar language, Maithili language have also started on Radio Nepal and Nepal Television. The ministry says that the news service has been started around the clock from the National News Committee.
In addition to these goals set by the office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, the communication has claimed that there is an effort to speed up the policy reform and the appointment process that has been stuck for a long time, the Tiktok ban which is in dispute, the license renewal of the telecommunication company and the Digital Nepal Framework. Minister Gurung said that he is trying to bring the ministry, which is under the surveillance and interest of many, to the path of reform after the incidents of irregularities and corruption were confirmed in the projects under the Ministry of Communications.
This ministry is full of garbage. My main learning during this event was that it is possible to clean up this mess with honest efforts," Gurung said, "It is a ministry that is ruined by corruption and full of middlemen. We will have to work hard to get rid of it.'
Those watching the information technology and telecommunication sector have commented that the ministry is limited to retail work. In the budget of the current financial year, if the government has taken ambitious goals such as celebrating the next 10 years as information technology decade, exporting information technology services worth 30 billion, experts have criticized that the government is in a situation where the expansion of 4G services is barely 72 percent. When the 4G service was launched in 2073, it was planned to expand it to the entire country by February 2076, but it has not yet been completed.
