Kathmandu: A group of professional, skilled and committed personalities from both the print and the electronic media have come together to establish a media forum, Conscious Media Forum, CMF, aiming at motivating professional journalists for quality reporting and use of media in social issues confronting the country.
The CMF aims at addressing the issues pertaining to different vulnerable groups such as drug users, sex workers, migrant workers and etc. The forum also wishes to make aware the public about the issues being confronted by the above mentioned vulnerable groups.
However, the CMF will concentrate its efforts in focusing HIV/AIDS issues and its socio-economic, cultural and social impacts.
Other sectors wherein the CMF will engage itself are health, human rights, education and issues of the conflicts.
The CMF believes that it has to give due attention to the plight of those who have been very badly hit by the continued spate of violence in the country for all along seven years or so.
The office bearers of the CMF are as follows: Kiran Pokhrel, Radio Sagarmatha; Gokarna Bhatta, Nepali Manch; T.N.Ghimire, The Telegraph Weekly; Krishna Bhandari, Pro-Public are the President, Vice President, Secretary General and Secretary respectively.
Other members include Suman Kharel and Khem Karki.