Minimum Wage Fixation Committee asks Minister Thapa to introduce relief packages to COVID-19 infected journalists

Nepal, June 14 -- KATHMANDU, Minimum Wages Fixation Committee Chairperson Rajendra Aryal has asked the-newly appointed Minister for Communication and Information Technology Nainkala Thapa to unveil relief packages for journalists hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minister Thapa, who inspected the Office of the Committee at Sanchar Gram in Kathmandu on Monday, was urged for her positive initiative to ensure treatment facility, compensation and relief packages to journalists infected with the COVID-19.

Aryal also demanded that frontline journalists be provided with vaccination against COVID-19 at the earliest and relief packages to journalists infected with COVID-19 or those recovered ones and the families of those succumbing to COVID-19....