RSS , Kathmandu — Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Gokul Prasad Baskota, has announced that the Nepal Television (NTV)’s World English Channel would be launched within the current fiscal year.

In his address to a programme organised on the occasion of NTV’s 35th anniversary, the Minister directed the NTV management team to gear up for the project launch by taking it as a new initiative to the promote the nation’s image.

He pledged to make sure all sorts of required assistance and budgetary arrangements for the same.

At present, the NTV operates five channels. Stating the NTV along with the National News Agency (RSS), Gorkhapatra Sansthan and Radio Nepal were not government media houses, they were the State’s resources and assets, instead, the Minister underlined the need of changing perception towards such media houses.