There can be no dispute over it. Free and independent media are a sine qua non for a healthy growth of democracy. Since press and democracy are complementary to each other.
Free press needs democracy and democracy since needs free press.
For mediapersons to pursue their works unhindered, the government has to create an enabling environment and for democracy to flourish, a vibrant media has to do its bit in augmenting free flow of ideas. In tune with the new democratic order ushered in 1990, Nepal's press turned a corner. Legal controls were done away. To support the general heightened interest in utilisation of the freedom of expression, the Nepalese press developed. That development however has been mainly quantitative.