Govt in favour of working journalists: Communications Minister Baskota

Kavrepalanchok : Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota on Saturday said the government was in favour of working journalists. “The government is in favour of working journalists. So it wants to increase their minimum wage (up to Rs 40,000 monthly),” he said while addressing a gathering of consumers of the Sunkoshi Panchkhal Drinking Water Project here. “Neither corporate media houses nor the Federation of Nepali Journalists are supporting the issue of increment in minimum salary structure of working journalists. But we (the government) stand up for them.”
In another context, Minister Baskota stressed the need for also respective bodies to explore and safeguard the sources of water keeping in view of environmental degradation. Similarly, the minister met Rijan Danuwar at his house at Panchkhal Municipality-12, of whom he has taken the guardianship in the course of a school enrolment campaign six months ago. During the meeting, he took stock of his education and health. Five-year-old Danuwar is a one grader at local Aajad Secondary School. On the occasion, Minister Baskota said he would finance Danuwar’s education up to Grade 12.