No room for failure, says Communications Minister Gurung

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung has said that the current government will work in way to give the people a sense of change within a year.

Speaking at a press meet organized by Federation of Nepali Journalists, Kaski chapter in Pokhara this morning, he said the coalition government has no room for failure and the Prime Minister has also given us clear guidelines on this.

Minister Gurung said the two largest parties in the parliament Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) have formed the government to speed up the pace of development and good governance along with political stability in the country.

“In parliamentary practice, a government of two major parties is seldom formed, we have also used it as a last resort”, he said, “If this government also fails, public trust in the old mainstream political parties will be broken.”

He said that the government will focus on economic reforms, job creation, good governance and infrastructure development activities.

On a different note, the Communications Minister said that the laws related to media and communications will be amended in a timely manner.

“Some media institutions are running on the basis of old laws and regulations, they should be revised and amended. The Ministry of Communications will take special initiative to formulate necessary laws towards that end”, he said.

An action plan will be developed and implemented for the modernization of the media and the professional development of media persons.