Koirala said that now they have been preparing to stop providing government facilities to the media houses, which are not registered in VAT.
He added the government is going to bring such policy to make the media houses stronger as per times.
At an interaction organised by the Journalists´ Forum at Damak today, Koirala stressed that media sector should be of scientific standards as the sector is being established as an industry.
He further said that now media houses should be made as professional and employment-oriented.
Mentioning that problems of media workers working in national media houses and media houses in mofussil are different, Koirala said there was no alternative to implementing the Working Journalists Act compulsorily by media houses.
On the occasion, owners of local media houses claimed that they implemented the Act in mofussil, even by facing challenges.
Similarly, media workers complained that the press pass distributed by the Department of Information is impractical.
The programme was chaired by Chairman of the Forum, Gopal Jhapali.
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