ITANAGAR, Jan 24: Secretary, Department of Telecommunication (DOT) GoI, J S Deepak has assured special package for Arunachal Pradesh to develop telecommunications in the state.
The DoT Secretary assured this when Chief Secretary Shakuntala D. Gamlin made the proposal, among others, during the two days meeting of Department of Telecom at Guwahati, which concluded on Tuesday.
Deepak said that the Union Ministry of Telecommunication will install around 6000 towers across North East under the comprehensive telecom development plant for North East India.
The project will connect more than 8000 villages across the region in next two years. BSNL will do this work in Arunachal Pradesh, he said.
During the meeting the Chief Secretary apprised the Department of Telecom of the need to expand telecommunications in the strategically located state, mainly in view of GST implementation, demonetization, educational purposes, promotion and development of tourism sector etc.
The State Government is looking for full-filling the vision of the Digital India and implementing the ‘Go cashless, Go Digital’ policy, where the telecommunication plays a vital role, the CS informed.
She expressed her concern over slow pace of works by the executing agencies in various projects, such as NOFN, USOF, BSNL OFC connectivity. She emphasized that Railtel and BSNL should carry out their work on war footing to complete their projects in a time bound manner so that implementation of GST and other e-Governance projects can be rolled out on time.
She also apprised on various steps taken by State Government for smooth implementation of the projects in the state.
The Chief Secretary also proposed to bring Internet to the state expeditiously, which included among others a waive in spectrum charges for 5 years, dedicated office with a senior officer and team to review and expedite work in Arunachal, speedy procurement of microwave emitters, review of entire network to increase reliability, incentives to private operators to invest and scale up operations in state, optical connectivity by March 18 and improvement in interim Microwave/VSAT connectivity, a VSAT hub at Itanagar.
Meanwhile, the Secretary DoT of the Union Govt. assured to make more bandwidth available, wherever the VSATs are being installed, especially in district headquarters, interim improved connectivity through VSAT till Optical Fibres are laid and connectivity through OFC within a period of 2 years.
The DoT Secretary assured this when Chief Secretary Shakuntala D. Gamlin made the proposal, among others, during the two days meeting of Department of Telecom at Guwahati, which concluded on Tuesday.
Deepak said that the Union Ministry of Telecommunication will install around 6000 towers across North East under the comprehensive telecom development plant for North East India.
The project will connect more than 8000 villages across the region in next two years. BSNL will do this work in Arunachal Pradesh, he said.
During the meeting the Chief Secretary apprised the Department of Telecom of the need to expand telecommunications in the strategically located state, mainly in view of GST implementation, demonetization, educational purposes, promotion and development of tourism sector etc.
The State Government is looking for full-filling the vision of the Digital India and implementing the ‘Go cashless, Go Digital’ policy, where the telecommunication plays a vital role, the CS informed.
She expressed her concern over slow pace of works by the executing agencies in various projects, such as NOFN, USOF, BSNL OFC connectivity. She emphasized that Railtel and BSNL should carry out their work on war footing to complete their projects in a time bound manner so that implementation of GST and other e-Governance projects can be rolled out on time.
She also apprised on various steps taken by State Government for smooth implementation of the projects in the state.
The Chief Secretary also proposed to bring Internet to the state expeditiously, which included among others a waive in spectrum charges for 5 years, dedicated office with a senior officer and team to review and expedite work in Arunachal, speedy procurement of microwave emitters, review of entire network to increase reliability, incentives to private operators to invest and scale up operations in state, optical connectivity by March 18 and improvement in interim Microwave/VSAT connectivity, a VSAT hub at Itanagar.
Meanwhile, the Secretary DoT of the Union Govt. assured to make more bandwidth available, wherever the VSATs are being installed, especially in district headquarters, interim improved connectivity through VSAT till Optical Fibres are laid and connectivity through OFC within a period of 2 years.
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