elegraph/FES media seminar this week Intellectuals to criss-cross state of “governance” in Nepal

December 19, 2001
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Kathmandu: At a national media seminar to be held this Thursday afternoon, the nation’s renowned scholars together with the media personalities will discuss the role of the media in promoting good governance in the country.

Of late, the words like governance, good governance and bad governance have become catch words in Nepal’s political spectrum. However, seminars on this topic though have become a routine affair, much less is known as to what impact such seminars on the above mentioned topics have imparted upon the government’s day to day activities.

Nevertheless, government authorities keep on talking on this subject and at every seminar they assure the attending participants that they do realize the importance of good governance and were all set to provide good governance in the country so that the lay men enjoy the benefits of good governance.

The ground reality is that, say majority of the population, we have no governance and hence the people’s disillusionment regarding the suitability of the system itself.

The media seminar on the “Role of media in promoting good governance” is being organized by The Telegraph Weekly in close cooperation with the German Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on 20 December in Kathmandu.

University Professors noted Nepali media personalities, Kathmandu based diplomats and members of the civil society are expected to attend the seminar.

Herr Rudiger Lemp, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany is the chief guest of the seminar. Ambassador Lemp is expected to enlighten the attending participants with his country’s thinking on “good-governance” which the organizers believe will give some inkling into how the Western democracies think of the existing Nepali governance.

Likewise, Robert Kerr, the Director at the American Center will deliver his keynote speech wherein he is expected to touch upon the role of the media in promoting good governance in a nascent democracy like ours.

Mr. Kerr is concurrently the Public Affairs Officer at the US embassy.

Two Nepali scholars, Mr. Lal Babu Yadav and Mr. Ajay Ghimire, are presenting their papers at the seminar.

Mr. Yadav is at the moment teaching political science at the Patan Multiple campus. Mr. Ghimire is the executive director at the ACE Finance company.

Professor Sri Dhar Khatri and senior journalist Shrish Rana have agreed to chair the two sessions.

To recall, Ambassador Klaus Barth, the predecessor of Ambassador Lemp was the chief guest at a similar media seminar on civil society organized by this Weekly in the year 1999.