Kathmandu, Mar. 21:His Majesty’s Government has formed an eight-member transmission monitoring committee under the convenorship of Shailendra Raj Sharma to regularly monitor, evaluate and coordinate the electronic media (Radio and T.V.) programmes and rectify various aberrations and shortcomings in the transmission.
The committee will supervise the technical aspect and subject matters of the programmes being transmitted by Radio and Television with special emphasis on production of quality entertainment programmes best suited to the Nepalese context and ensuring free flow of the right information as guided by the constitution of the kingdom of Nepal-1990.
According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the committee members include Ved Bahadur Kunwar, Manohari Thapa, Khagendra Khatri, Durga Fuyal, Krishna Bhandari and Tribhuvan Chandra Wagle. Anup Nepal is member-secretary. The committee started working from today.
Suggestions received from various individuals and relevant materials published in newspapers will serve as the basis for examining the electronic media programmes.
The committee will also review all the transmitted programmes at least twice a week and carry out various activities to prevent any aberrations in the Nepalese nationalism, constitutional limitations and cultural dignity.
Should the committee find weaknesses in the programmes transmitted by the private sector fm radios and televisions, it will direct the transmission institution to rectify the weaknesses, and take necessary action if the institutions did not correct the weaknesses within the stipulated time.
The committee will, likewise, listen daily to the programmes transmitted by Radio Nepal, Nepal Television and the private sector FM Radio and Television to monitor and evaluate the programmes to make sure that they are in consistent with the Transmission Directory-2055, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal-1990, National Broadcasting Act-2049 and National Broadcasting Regulations-2052.
It will also check whether or not the private sector FM Radio and Televisions are complying with the conditions agreed upon while issuing the license, whether or not they have maintained the standard as mentioned in the conditions. The impact of the programmes of such Radio and Televisions on the language and culture will also be monitored.
The first meeting of the committee held under the chairmanship of committee convenor Sharma today made a division of work among the committee members and took several decisions.
Also today a delegation of the committee led by convenor Sharma met secretary at the Ministry of Information and Communications Sriram Poudel and apprised the latter of the activities planned by the committee.
On the occasion, secretary Poudel instructed the committee to strictly check whether or not the license holder transmission institutions have abided by the set conditions.
The committee has requested the audience to send their suggestions and inputs to the committee at the Ministry of Information and Communications.