Govt committed towards managing people's right to information: Minister Gurung

LAMJUNG: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung has asserted that the government was making efforts to streamline people's right to information.

Addressing a special function organized on the occasion of Tamu Lhosar festival at Sundarbazaar of Lamjung district on Monday, Minister Gurung mentioned that the government was going to introduce a legislation to regulate and control the misuse of social media.

The government acknowledging its responsibility to curb cybercrimes and misuse of social media, the Minister, also the Spokesperson of the government, said it was going to roll out law on cyber security soon.

On a different note, he denounced the cooperatives duping general public and thus emphasized the need to prevent cooperatives' scam.

According to him, arrangements will be made so that one person cannot be chairperson for more than two terms in a cooperative. This provision is aimed at curbing embezzlement in cooperatives by scrapping the provision of an individual becoming Chairperson of a cooperative over and again throughout his life.

Also, cooperatives will be categorized based on their status and arrangements will be made for registration in local and province levels in accordance with their status.

He informed that an ordinance to amend Some Nepal Acts related to cooperatives has been endorsed by the parliament and authenticated by the President as well to refund the of depositors whose money was embezzled by cooperatives.

The government will work towards returning small amount of the depositors in the beginning and gradually returning other amounts, he outlined the government plans.

Minister Gurung, citing the constitutional provision that other languages in addition of the Nepali language will be the language for government's official business, pressed for exercising this very rights enshrined by the constitution.

He cautioned that some regressive forces were trying to overturn the federal democratic republic system and reinstate the older governance system. He argued, "It is the responsibility of the mainstream political parties to maintain and protect this system they introduced after sacrifices and struggles,"

Various cultural processions were held in the programme organized by the Tamu Samaj. Also, Sorathi, Ghatu, Krishna Charitra and Dhadobhaka among others ethnic dances belonging to the Gurung community were presented during the event, said Min Bahadur Gurung, Chairperson of Sundar Bazar Samaj.

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