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In a first, Gujarat to connect all villages via satellite
Each panchayat will have its own e-mail address and more than 13,000 of them will be hosted on the state-owned data centre. The project will be connected through very small aperture terminals, which bounce data from one location to another via satellites
Regina Anthony
New Delhi, May19
Gujarat will be the first state in India to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats, as village administrative councils are commonly called, by July this year, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-governance, distance education, tele-medicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.
Each panchayat will have its own e-mail address and more than 13,000 of them will be hosted on the state-owned data centre. The project will be connected through so-called very small aperture terminals or VSATs, which bounce data signals from one location to another via satellites, routing these signals through small dish antennas.
The project will cost Rs 200-300 crore, a senior Gujarat government official said. "While a majority of the funds come from the state government, some capacity of between Rs 20 crore to Rs 25 crore comes from the Central government," said Varesh Sinha, principal secretary of panchayats in the state.
The build-operate-transfer project, announced by the state government in September, has India's largest mobile phone services firm, Bharti Airtel Ltd, which also runs a broadband business, as the implementing agency. Bharti Airtel, which began work on the project in January, plans to connect the with panchayats broadband connectivity at speeds of 2mbps.
"One of the best things about Gujarat is that there is a lot of great digitisation that has happened in the state than anywhere else. This will be further fuelled by the panchayat connectivity," said T.R. Madan Mohan, managing partner at management consultancy firm Browne and Mohan.
Chris Tobit, Bharti Airtel's director, sales and operations for enterprise services, said the project was on track for completion in July. The New Delhi based firm won the contract in October.
Gujarat is moving fast in taking information technology or IT to the village level, said an expert overseeing the Centre's common services centres project that aims to roll out some 100,000 computer kiosks countrywide.
(Hindustan Times)
Each panchayat will have its own e-mail address and more than 13,000 of them will be hosted on the state-owned data centre. The project will be connected through very small aperture terminals, which bounce data from one location to another via satellites
Regina Anthony
New Delhi, May19
Gujarat will be the first state in India to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats, as village administrative councils are commonly called, by July this year, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-governance, distance education, tele-medicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.
Each panchayat will have its own e-mail address and more than 13,000 of them will be hosted on the state-owned data centre. The project will be connected through so-called very small aperture terminals or VSATs, which bounce data signals from one location to another via satellites, routing these signals through small dish antennas.
The project will cost Rs 200-300 crore, a senior Gujarat government official said. "While a majority of the funds come from the state government, some capacity of between Rs 20 crore to Rs 25 crore comes from the Central government," said Varesh Sinha, principal secretary of panchayats in the state.
The build-operate-transfer project, announced by the state government in September, has India's largest mobile phone services firm, Bharti Airtel Ltd, which also runs a broadband business, as the implementing agency. Bharti Airtel, which began work on the project in January, plans to connect the with panchayats broadband connectivity at speeds of 2mbps.
"One of the best things about Gujarat is that there is a lot of great digitisation that has happened in the state than anywhere else. This will be further fuelled by the panchayat connectivity," said T.R. Madan Mohan, managing partner at management consultancy firm Browne and Mohan.
Chris Tobit, Bharti Airtel's director, sales and operations for enterprise services, said the project was on track for completion in July. The New Delhi based firm won the contract in October.
Gujarat is moving fast in taking information technology or IT to the village level, said an expert overseeing the Centre's common services centres project that aims to roll out some 100,000 computer kiosks countrywide.
(Hindustan Times)