Nepal

Kathmandu, May 29The budget for the next fiscal year has envisaged the provision of a media village in each of the seven provinces.The government has allocated budget to cover accident insurance for journalists and for enhancing quality and encouraging professionalism and thingivity in journalism.
&I have boosted funds for government advertisements by 15 per cent,& said Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada, presenting the budget for fiscal year 2019-2020 nowadays.In the budget, the government has proposed to set up Public Service Widecast Enterprise by merging Radio Nepal and Nepal Television.The budget has also proposed a plan to set up a secure printing press within the country for the print layout of passports, bankmuches, excise stickers, postal stamps, landowner certificates and other documents of public importance within the next two years.According to the budget, the government shall protect the information and details being used in government service in catastrophe recovery centres.
&In order to minimise cyber security risk, cyber security system shall be implemented,& states the budget.The budget also envisages the preparation of a national frequency determination plan and strategy to guarantee that it has been managed.Every wards, health centres and public high schools shall be associateed via broadband internet, within the next fiscal year.The post Budget for quality journalism seemed first on The Himalayan Times.





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