Banepa (Kavrepalanchok), June 29: Stakeholders have stressed the need for using the right to information as power and an asset while urging the taking of this right as responsibility.
The remarks were made at a seminar on ‘protection, promotion and practices of the right to information’ organised by the Federation of Nepali Journalists, Kavrepalanchok.
Commissioner at the National Information Commission Yasoda Timsina said the right to information has also been defined as power while referring to the saying that richness of a person is defined as having a wide range of information and not only wealth.
Similarly, Chief District Officer, Kavrepalanchok Shiva Simkhada underscored the need for taking the right of information as responsibility while viewing that it would be wrong to enjoy facilities by non-journalists in the name of genuine journalists.
Also, President of the FNJ, Kavrepalanchok Motiram Timilsina, Nepal Press Council member Ishwori Ojha, Superintendent of Police Sahadev Thapa among others stressed the need for all to access the right of information. RSS
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