Kathmandu, Jan. 5: Purunder Ghimire, Chairman of the Gorkhapatra Corporation, has been nominated member of the 12-member Advisory Council of the Nepal Press Institute. The newly formed Advisory Council of the Institute also has President of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, Chairman of the Printers’ Association, lawyer Kashiraj Dahal, media expert Laldhoj Deusa Rai and Banshidhar Poudel as representative of the Advertiser Entrepreneurs’ Association.

The Council was formed under the Institute’s revised statute of 2057.

The Chairman, Vice Chairman, General Secretary and Treasurer of the Press Institute are the ex-officio members of the Council. The statute also has provision for an Information Technology expert and a management expert as members of the Council.

Meanwhile, the Institute’s new Executive Committee has nominated Chief Editor of Nepal Samacharpatra Pushkarlal Shrestha and former acting Executive Director of Radio Nepal Dhruba Kumar Deuja to the two vacant posts of the Committee.