{"id":431364,"date":"2026-06-17T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431364"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:11:07","slug":"information-ministry-forms-probe-committee-to-investigate-psb-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/17\/431364.html","title":{"rendered":"Information Ministry forms probe committee to investigate PSB procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>The Ministry of Information and Communication has formed a four-member committee to investigate the procurement of equipment and technology by Public Service Broadcasting (PSB), including Nepal Television, over different periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee was formed on June 15 through a ministerial decision and is coordinated by Dr. Sudip Bhattarai, according to the ministry. It has been given 21 days to complete its study and submit a report based on complaints related to equipment, software, and digital systems purchased by PSB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The panel will also review graphics systems, digital platforms, audio-video equipment, digital transmitters, and the playout automation system used for Nepal Television\u2019s Itahari channel. It has been mandated to consider public concerns as part of its investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complaints regarding the procurement had been filed at various bodies, prompting the formation of the committee. Earlier, the ministry had also formed a separate committee to investigate the satellite purchase for PSB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The Ministry of Information and Communication has formed a four-member committee to investigate the procurement of equipment and technology by Public Service Broadcasting (PSB), including Nepal Television, over different periods. The committee was formed on June 15 through a ministerial decision and is coordinated by Dr. Sudip Bhattarai, according to the ministry. It has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":431365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,76,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431366,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431364\/revisions\/431366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431364"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}