Feature News: Journalists on the receiving end of COVID-19 crisis

Kathmandu - Kalika Khadka "I worked day and night. I sometimes stayed overnight and it sometimes would be 4 in the morning when I reached home after work. I worked without pay. We faced another disaster after a disaster occurred," said a journalist Govinda Devkota, who worked for the Annapurna Post Daily. Devkota is now in protest quitting his job demanding that he be paid his unpaid salaries.

Devkota was transferred from the news editing section to the special bureau of the news collection section at the Daily amidst the pandemic. He was thereafter transferred to Manang around one month later from Kathmandu, the central capital of the country. But he rejected the transfer order due to various reasons. Financial hardships aside, he faced mental torture when he demanded his salary. "I felt I faced mental torture at the hands of the employer.