June 13th, 2022

On the occasion of the 16th foundation day of Music Royalty Collection Society Nepal, Royalty
Distribution Program – 2079 BS has been completed splendidly in the Kathmandu.
On this occasion, senior founding members who have made significant contributions for the
establishment of the organization were honored and royalty collected from Transport sector,
F.M, Radio, Television, Hotel and Restaurants, Meeting Halls, Fairs, Festivals, Concerts and
Reality Shows have been distributed to the music creators.

As per tariff, Public transport costs Rs 2,000 per year for a 26-56 seat Bus, Rs 1,400 for a 15-25
seat mini Bus, Rs 1,000 for a 14-seat jeep / van / pick-up / microbus, Rs 800 for a 4-13 seat
tempo, Rs 1,200 for a truck and tanker. , Mini truck has to pay Rs.1000, mini pick up has to pay
Rs.900 to the music royalty collection society. There is a clear provision in the Transport
Procedures and Guidelines that issues such as transfer, registration, renewal, pollution
inspection and road permit of public transport should not be sanctioned without understanding
the music royalty MRCSN as per the criteria implemented by Music Royalty Collection Society
Nepal. However, the heads of some transport management and service offices have been
ignoring the issue and giving such approval. That is the reason due to which some of Music
creators have grievances related to this issue.

Chairman of the organization Mr. Suresh Chandra Adhikari presided over the function while
Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Mr. Prem Ale was the chief guest.
The program was conducted by Badri Pandey, General Secretary of MRCSN. Members of the
House of Representatives, Honourable Bidha Bhattarai, Member of the Federal Parliament,
Suresh Acharya, Member of the Secretariat of the Prime Minister's Office, Bishnu Kumari
Bhandari, Registrar of the Office of the Registrar of Copyright, Madan Pokharel, Head of the
Transportation Management Office Nirmal Raj Dhakal, Founder President of Music Royalty
Collection Society Nepal Yadab Kharel, Performer Society of Nepal’s President Shiva Hamal,
Former Presidents of organization, Mr. Shree Purush Dhakal, Mahesh Khadka and others were
present on the occasion.

Vice President of the organization Chandra Sharma gave a welcome address at the program.
Honorable Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Mr. Prem Ale inaugurated the
program by lighting a lamp. Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil
Aviation Mr. Prem Ale highly appreciated the work and expressed his commitment to support
the campaign as much as possible in the coming days.

For the Purpose of collecting royalties from public users concerned and distributing them to the
rightful owners as prescribed by law, Music Royalty Collection Society Nepal is only an official
and authorized organization in Nepal recognized by Government of Nepal to act in accordance
with Rule 10 of the Copyright Rules, 2061 and constituted under Section 39 of the Copyright
Act, 2059.

On the same occasion, Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya, Shripurush Dhakal, Yadav Kharel, Dr. Bhojraj
Ghimire, Chandra Kumar Ghimire, SP Koirala, Dinesh Adhikari, Visu Kumar KC, Rupnarayan
Bhattarai, Bharat Mani Subedi, Ram Prasad Bhattarai, Kumar Basnet, Santosh Sharma,
Chudamani Devkota, Mahesh Khadka, Laxman Shesh ,Late Rabindra Adhikari(His wife Bidha
Bhattarai) were showered with special honour.
Late. Ratna Shamsher Thapa, Raman Ghimire, Shakti Ballabh Shrestha, Kaliprasad Rijal, Mira
Rana, Ganesh Rasik, Yadav Kharel, Hiranya Bhojpure, Geeta Tripathi, late. Madan Deep Vim,
Sripurush Dhakal, Shushil Vishwakarma, Chandrakala Shah, Niranjan Maharjan, Dhanendra
Vimal Kshetri, Navraj Lamsal, Madan Singh Nepali, Dr. Bambahadur Thapa, Bhupendra
Rayamajhi, Kamal Pariyar, Bharat Bamjan, Late Yukta Bahadur Guru, Late. Dr. Ramman Trishit
Kiran Kharel, Raju Singh Krishna Aviral, Dr. Krishnahari Baral, Bhanubhakta Dhakal, New
Bajracharya, Alok Shri (Surya Kumar Khati), Shubh Bahadur Sunam, Shilbahadur Moktan, Deep
Shrestha, Unnati Bohra (Shila), Nagendra Thapa, Dr. Vimal Koirala, S. P. Koirala, Ramesh Poudel,
Ram Aviral, Damodar Baskota, Kiran Kadel, Late Bhairavnath Rimal, Deepak Jangam, Rajendra
Thapa, Manaraja Nakarmi, Navin Dahal, Dhuvesh Chandra Regmi, Suresh Adhikari, Vishwa
Ballabh, Lalijan Rawal, Pramod Upadhyay, Narayan Oli, Narayan Rayamajhi, Raju Agrawal, Icing
Lama, Amul Karki Dhali, Ratna Behosi, Balamukund Banepali, Sagar Gautam, Vasant
Mukharung, Keshav Poudel, Ishwar Khatri, late. Vijay Singh Munal, late. Ishwar Ballabh, late.
Shambhu Kumar Milan, Purushattam Sapkota, Abhash, Rajendra Salve, Shyam Nepali, Ramesh
Shrestha, Nanda Krishna Joshi etc. were honored as founding members.

 

In this program 1,01,72,281.71. (1 Crore,1 lakh, 72 thousand 2 hundred 81 rupees and 71 paisa)
royalty amount was distributed. Currently, the number of members receiving royalty is 1671.
The minimum amount distributed was from Rs 1,347 to Rs 2,16,982.83. Also, On the occasion of
Foundation day, MR. Badri Pandey announced to create fund of amount Rs. 5,08,614.48 for the
welfare of Creators.