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At a time when the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Company is celebrating its forty fourth superb anniversary, it has for the primary time in latest historical past gained the flexibility to function independently with out monetary contributions from the Treasury. The nationwide tv, which was solely depending on Treasury allocations from 2017 to 2024, has efficiently freed itself from that scenario since final yr, said Mr. Gihan de Silva, the Chairman of the Company.
He revealed this throughout a particular media briefing held for the Rupavahini anniversary, which falls on February 14th.
Together with this celebration, a collection of spiritual packages has been organized, underneath which an all-night Pirith chanting ceremony is scheduled to be held on the Rupavahini premises on the evening of the thirteenth of this month, and an alms-giving meritorious deed on the 14th. Moreover, the Chairman additional said that many different particular packages, together with an all-religious program on the fifteenth, shall be carried out.
The Chairman identified that the nationwide channel, which started in 1982 as a coloration tv reward from the Japanese authorities, has now change into a nationwide heritage of the nation. He emphasised that its goal is to function independently and impartially, with out changing into a mouthpiece for any authorities, according to the federal government’s ‘A Affluent Nation, A Stunning Life’ coverage collection. Because of profitable discussions with Japan’s JICA establishment, the nationwide tv is about to utterly transition from its present analog know-how to digitalization throughout the subsequent few months, and Sri Lanka’s first 4K know-how studio shall be acquired by the nationwide tv inside two years.
Commenting on the channel’s program content material, he said that the nationwide channel launched an enormous collection of packages on meals safety at a time when no different media paid consideration to it. For this, 317 packages had been broadcast inside a brief interval of 4 months, with the participation of over a thousand medical doctors and intellectuals. Steps have additionally been taken to create many high quality kids’s packages sooner or later that correctly safeguard kids’s tradition, morality, and language utilization. Giving new life to the artwork of drama, which had collapsed as a result of buy of meaningless teledramas at exorbitant costs up to now, the present administration has taken steps to pick creations transparently with out the intervention of the Chairman or the Director Basic.
In the meantime, Mr. Manoj Amarasinghe, the Director Basic of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Company, said that as a full member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), the nationwide tv performs an enormous function at a world degree. Final November, Rupavahini additionally efficiently hosted a world convention within the nation with the participation of practically 40 overseas nations. By these robust worldwide relations, it has been potential to carry extra dependable overseas information nearer to native audiences, and the nationwide tv has additionally been in a position to change into the channel with probably the most awards, profitable over 26 awards on the 2024 Rupavahini State Awards ceremony.
