NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said today that she has asked Prasar Bharati to work towards offering at least 200 television channels on the country’s only free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) platform, DD Direct Plus.
‘We are discussing the matter with the Prasar Bharati people, and I have asked them to try to increase the number of FTA channels to about 200,” Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told reporters here after releasing the annual India 2010 and Bharat 2010 reference manual brought out by the Publications Division and the Research and Reference Division of her Ministry.
Currently, DD Direct Plus carries 57 channels, apart from 21 channels of All India Radio. The TV channels include 21 Doordarshan channels.

Add some himachali channel like dd shimla,himachal aajkal, city9, city channel himachali. . . . . Plz plz plz. . . . Ambika G
Plz add some himachali channel plz
Add himachal aajkal news channel plz plz plz…………….
Ma’am plz add some himachali channel…plz…
Thanx
Gand marao salo
Hi, Most of the news channels like NDTV, Times Now, CNEB, IBN7 etc are free to air and can be easily added to DDD+ platform. Also various foreign news channels like France 24, BBC worldwide services apart fro Russia today are free to air. And various info channels like History is free.
please stop giving false assurance tell when u r going to increase no. of quality channels on dd direct plus
Sir This Month of March some channels include 5 channels add honge
Jo Test channel start replace channels new channels
Dear sir,
Pls add QTV channel and CARTOON channel
sir plz add some sport channel like max,10sport,starcricket etc
Dear Madam,
Ambika soni
please add cortoon channel and mh1 and 9xm channel in dd direct plus.
we are very thankful to you.
Plz sir add mh1 music, and remove some old channel