The AGM elected Rudra Bdr. Bhattarai as vice-president and Santosh Shrestha as general secretary. [break]
Similarly, Nabin Raj Poudel, Yadav Shrestha and Narayan Shrestha were elected as secretary, treasurer and vice-treasurer respectively.
Speaking on the occasion, Nirmal Raj Poudel, immediate past president of AAN, urged the government to implement the concept of clean feed in transmission of foreign television channels without further delay. “We are losing billions of rupees in advertising revenue due to our failure in implementing clean feed policy,” Poudel added.
He also informed that AAN was working hard to establish National Media Center (NMC) in collaboration with other media bodies like Nepal Media Society, Television Broadcasters´ Nepal and the alliance of weekly and fortnightly newspapers for simultaneous growth of Nepali media and advertising industries.
Newly elected president Raj Kumar Bhattarai said his team would work to establish the Rs 3.5-billion-industry as a creative service industry and to develop it as a strong tool for the country´s socio-economic development.
“Establishing National Media Center to develop Nepali ad industry as per the international standard will be our first priority. We also have a long term plan of establishing a resource center for mass communication and advertising,” Bhattarai told Republica.
He also said the new team will work to further strengthen relations between all the components involved in the advertising cycle -- advertiser, advertising agency, media and general consumers.
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