Kathmandu, Oct. 14
Ministry for Communication and Information
Technology (MoCIT) said on Wednesday that the clean feed policy would come into
effect from 23 October, the official deadline set by the ministry last year in
consultation with the stakeholders concerned.
The clean feed provision would be
implemented as per the Advertisement (Regulation) Act, 2019 and all concerned
business should abide by it, the MoCIT said in a statement.
The law demands the downlink of television
channels broadcast from abroad to be advertisement free and they should begin
it from 23 October, as per the law.
While the ministry had given a year's
period to make necessary provisions, various organisations like Indian
Broadcasters Forum, Discovery Networks, BBC News and Federation of Nepal Cable
Television have now demanded to extend the deadline of the clean feed
implementation.
The ministry's attention is drawn by the
demand but there wouldn't be any extension in deadline, Gokarna Mani Duwadi,
Spokesperson of the Ministry said in the statement.
The MoCIT had urged all concerned
organisations to execute the legal provision and warned that those not abiding
by the law would be penalised as per the law.
Clean feed means the broadcast of foreign
television channels without foreign advertisement. They can have advertisement
but that should be produced in Nepal and in local languages.
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