Kathmandu, September 17 :

Minister of State for Information and Communications, Dilendra Prasad Badu has announced that a taskforce would be constituted to carry out detailed study regarding the process of formation of the Media Commission and the topic of right to information.

Speaking at a discussion programme on the draft of the Bill Concerning the Right to Information organised at the Ministry of Information and Communications here today, he said the Bill on this topic would be tabled in the current session of the Parliament on the basis of the taskforce’s recommendation. He said the taskforce to be constituted would organise discussion on the topic of the Media Commission and he right to information from village to centre in a transparent manner, would take advice of experts and formulate the Bill on the basis of the recommendations received.

He expressed the belief that this arrangement would help make the right to information legally secure.