Radio service for remote parts stressed

December 3, 2003
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KATHMANDU, Dec. 3: Minister for Information and Communications Ramesh Nath Pandey has said that community communications media should be taken to the remote parts of the country to intensify the momentum of development in the country.

During the course of an inspection of the Radio Sagarmatha, the first Community Radio in the entire South Asian region, here today, Minister Pandey said that the broadcasting of community radio should not be confined to the developed areas of the country.

Journalists should play an important role in protecting the national character, promoting nationalism and taking the spirit of national unity to the grassroots level, Minister Pandey added.

Minister Pandey also said that it is also the role of the mass media to ensure discussions between the state and citizens, political parties and their supporters and neutral persons and active intellectuals.

Stating that His Majesty the King had made a commitment for the conslidation of multi-party democracy, Pandey said that political parties should be strong for strengthening democracy.

Ideological differences in multi-party democracy are a part of democracy, he said and added that monarchy is the symbol of national unity and the point where all the differences converge.

Minister Pandey was welcomed by vice-chairman of the society of environment journalists Bhupendra Busnet and its director Om Khadka.

On the occasion, director Khadka said that the society was actively working for the development of community radio across the country and reiterated the commitment of Radio Sagarmatha to the development of the country.

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