Speaking at the interaction organized by the High Level Commission on making media inclusive, in the capital today, the they said the issue of media inclusion would be materialized only when the Dalits, women, backward class people and region were provided special rights.[break]
They said that the inclusiveness in the media could get positive result only if the quality determination was made on the basis of the Working Journalists´ Act and existing laws and policies of inclusiveness, and providing advertisement to the media houses that fail to implement the existing laws and policies are stopped.
They said the government needs to increase investment in the media education and capacity building to succeed the slogan of making the media inclusive.
The participating speakers said that there was the question of what sort of media houses were the national ones as the national dailies still fail to reach to the villages on the same day of publishing. The policy is still unclear, they added.
The media houses should provide opportunities and scholarships to the indigenous nationalities, Madhesis, women, and others to make the media inclusive, they said.
The Commission held discussions with the representatives of the concerned media to have a standard for national media, the standards of grant for the government owned media, and how could the contents of government media and their dissemination be made inclusive, among others.
Coordinator of the Commission and Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Sushilkumar Ojha, Chairman of Rastriya Samachar Samiti, Komalnath Baral, Executive Director of the Radio Nepal, Suresh Karki, Manisha Ghimire of Nepal Television, and senior journalist Suresh Acharya, among others, also expressed their views.
The 19-member commission has been holding interactions among the concerned stakeholders time and again to make the media inclusive.
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