Progress Report Quarter 2 2011 - UNDP Afghanistan

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2011 and 27 th May 2011 respectively. His Excellency Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen, Minister
of Information and Culture GIRA signed the MOU on behalf of GIRA. On behalf of GOI, the
two MOUs were signed by Mrs. Ambika Soni, Hon‟ble Minister for Information and
Broadcasting and Ms. Kumari Shelja, Hon‟ble Minister for Culture respectively. The MOUs lay
the foundations of a CD support to MoIC in the field of Information and Culture. A work plan
has been prepared to operationalize the twinning MOU and for undertaking CD activities
under the MOU.
Exchange of signed „Twinning‟ MoU between H. E. Dr
Raheen, Minister of Information & Culture, GIRA and
Mrs. Ambika Soni, Minister of Information &
Broadcasting, GOI on 24/05/2011
H. E. Dr Raheen, Minister of Information and Culture,
GIRA and Ms. Kumari Shelja, Minister of Culture, GOI
signing the „Twinning‟ MoU on 27/05/2011
The Afghan Delegation, led by H. E. Dr. Raheen, Minister for Information & Culture also
underwent an exposure visit in Delhi to (a) Press Information Bureau (PIB), (b) Headquarters
of DD News, (c) National Archives, and (d) National Gallery of Modern Art. The exposure visit
resulted in better appreciation of emerging challenges in information dissemination to
media, and how to channelize the government‟s perspective without distorting facts. The
delegation witnessed and learnt about the working of 24 hour news channel on a full
automation mode, reducing human intervention at various stages of production, postproduction
and on-air broadcast. The delegation was exposed to the techniques of
integration of news text, news graphics and news video at one point and switching for
simultaneous telecast of several channels including gathering of news from world over. The
exposure visit also resulted in transfer of knowledge related to preservation of art and
culture. The delegation learnt about the latest paper preservation techniques, lamination and
fumigation of the documents to remove any pests residing in the documents, microfilming
and digitization. In particular, the delegation witnessed that over 7,300 Persian documents,
which refer to the Afghan history, are preserved, microfilmed and digitized by National
Archives in India.
Quarterly Project Progress Report | April to June 2011