{"id":2675,"date":"2020-02-19T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/02\/19\/'federal-government-must-transfer-state-media-to-the-states'\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:40:00","slug":"federal-government-must-transfer-state-media-to-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/02\/19\/federal-government-must-transfer-state-media-to-the-states\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Federal government must transfer state media to the States&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Internal Affairs and Law of State 1, Hikmat Karki, has said that federal government must hand over its state-based media outlets to the state government.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a function to mark the 59th anniversary of Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the National News Agency, today morning at its state headquarters of Biratnagar, minister Karki said the State Government can&#8217;t sustain more state level medias and stressed to hand over all offices of National News Ageny, Gorakhapatra, Radio Nepal and Nepal Television.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I have talked with Prime Minister and he is also positive on this issue,&quot; the State 1 government minister stated.<\/p>\n<p>Karki said the ongoing payments for all reporters of government-owned media outlets must be increased to bring competitive stories in Nepali media.<\/p>\n<p>On different note, minister Karki said his ministry is always ready to support National News Agency with all possible means and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Internal Affairs and Law of State 1, Hikmat Karki, has said that federal government must hand over its state-based media outlets to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[425,330],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-itahari","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}