KATHMANDU, APRIL 28
This year's National Journalism Day (May 7) will be celebrated in a grand manner under the slogan 'Professional and Responsible Journalism'.
A meeting of the Seventh National Journalism Day Main Celebration Committee held at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology today determined the slogan for the Day and decided to celebrate the Day in a grand manner with various programmes.
The meeting held under the chairmanship of Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki decided to organise various programmes related to communications, information and journalism as well as media houses, on the occasion.
It also decided to ask media houses, media and journalists to publish and disseminate special edition, articles and interview as well as to publish and disseminate this year's slogan with high-priority.
Mass Communication Foundation and media houses have been requested to light lamps from May 6 to 8. On the occasion, Minister Karki stressed that all should fulfil their responsibilities to enhance press freedom and freedom of expression.
He opined, "The government is committed to establishing Nepal as a country having press freedom and freedom of expression in South Asia.
So, all the bodies concerned should be responsible in this regard."
A version of this article appears in the print on April 29, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
