Kathmandu, May 27: The government
has been able to reach broadband internet service to the centres of all local
levels across the country.
Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun
shared this information while presenting the economic survey, 2080/81 in the
meeting of the House of Representatives on Sunday.
The centres of 5,951 wards of the
local levels had access to broadband internet.
Similarly, 4,272 health centres,
and 5,341 community secondary schools got this facility.
With this expansion, it has helped
in ensuring uniformity in website format of all local levels. A total of 63
bodies associated with 263 local levels made the website live.
A total of 838 virtual machines
were in operation for the use of IT system in 340 government agencies having
cloud service.
Till the end of Falgun 2080BS,
registration of daily paper stood at 765, while biweekly 39, and weekly
298.
So far, total 7,997 newspapers were
registered and among them, Nepali language newspaper dominate the media
landscape with 5,376, while Rai language newspaper are only two.
Moreover, the numbers of FM and
Television on a regular operation are 720 and 107 respectively, the Minister
Pun shared. (RSS)