The communication sector is running under Mahendra's laws: Minister Gurung

While inaugurating the 18th Annual General Meeting and 8th Session of the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (Akorab), the umbrella organization of community radios across the country, on Friday, Minister Gurung said that although the multi-party democracy came in 2048 and the democratic system in 2063, most of the laws in the communication sector were from the Mahendra period. .

Although some laws in the field of communication and information technology are new, most of the laws are decades old, so there are many problems in this field, he said. 'I didn't even want to become the Minister of Communication,' he said He says that he decided to move forward and started working. According to Minister Gurung, the government has started to give priority to the creation and amendment of laws in the communication sector. He said that in the years after the multi-party democracy, there was a big wave of opening of the union organization and media in Nepal, but the need and sustainability were not taken into account and now the problem has arisen.

But the government cannot ignore the issue of solving the problem of community radio, so he also promised to try his best. In the program, community radio workers and activists objected that the government was not being generous towards community radio.

Arjun Giri, president of Akorab, said that the problem is getting complicated because the government has not brought community radio-friendly laws. He drew the government's attention to the fact that more than five dozen community radios have been shut down because the government did not bring community radio-friendly laws.

Akorab's Institutional President Raghu Mainali drew attention to the fact that the Ministry of Communication has not given up its intention to cause as much pain as possible to the community radio workers, despite years of intense pressure from the government.