‘Jhur’ idea of a university service commission

Universities that cannot recruit desired faculty are not autonomous institutions.

For some time now, the Nepali public at large has been criticising the quality of journalism rendered by our country’s traditionally influential print news outlets. This criticism is partially based on some valid concerns regarding the creation of journalistic outputs that do not seem to adhere to the basic protocols of the profession. Unidentified sources tend to get used too often. Single-source stories—including those on higher education that I read carefully—have frequently resulted in very biased outputs. Journalists are often also accused of doing the bidding for their sahuji s (owners of the newspaper concerned). However, despite the long list of complaints, I have never heard anyone say that a solution to these shortcomings of journalism in Nepal should be establishing a public institution with a name like Rastriya Patrakarita Sewa Ayog (national journalism service commission).