KATHMANDU, JULY 3
All the services provided by the Department of Information and Broadcasting (DIB) will go digital.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki inaugurated the BRLMS, DMS, Information Management System, and CAS SMS Online System amid a function here today.
On the occasion, Minister Karki, who is also the government spokesperson, directed the authorities concerned to make online services provided by the Department user-friendly, useful, effective, inspirational, exemplary and safe, as information technology is linked to the country's prosperity.
"Today is the age of information and technology. The world has transformed into a global village. We should be effortful to leverage communications and information technology to reap maximum benefits."
"The country's future should be sought within IT by attracting youths, who have been residing in foreign countries for job opportunities, towards the sector," he viewed. "IT has a golden future besides water resources, tourism and commercial agriculture," he said.
Underlining the importance of exploring potentials in IT and translating it, he underscored the need to take the nation ahead as per the government's goal to realise the dream of a prosperous Nepal.
The Department has launched the information management system under online service since last year.
In the current fiscal year, 927 newspapers, 38 television channels, 251 radio and 1,497 online platforms submitted the quota.
To date, the number of journalists receiving press card stands at 31,025, according to Department Director General Gogan Bahadur Hamal.
A version of this article appears in the print on July 4, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
