Monday, June 13, 2011

CS chairs follow-up to telecom network review meeting

GANGTOK, 10 June: A follow up meeting to review telecom services in Sikkim was held in the Tashiling conference here on 08 June chaired by Chief Secretary ND Chingapa, who is also the chairman of the review committee, a press release informs.
In his opening remarks, the Chief Secretary voiced his concern over the poor condition of telecommunication services in the state and advised BSNL to improve the state of affairs.
Principal Director/IT, Member Secretary then gave an overview of the telecommunication connectivity and highlighted salient features of the recently notified Right Of Way policy such as allowing Internet Service Providers to dig roads provided they restore the roads back to their original state, the ISP to provide a separate 8 Mbps leased line to the Government of Sikkim for the District Headquarters and the state government be allowed to use mobile towers to set up RF Antennae, the release informs.

This was followed by the CGM, BSNL, presenting an Action Taken Report on the issues that were discussed in the previous meeting which was held on 17 February 2011. These included the status of mobile coverage in the state, telecommunications facilities in border locations for Army and Border Road Organisation, setting up of an alternate high capacity Microwave connectivity for Gangtok and other District Headquarters, laying of Alternate OFC [Optical Fibre Cable] for Gangtok, OFC on Power Towers, the prolonged telecom failure in block administration centre at Dentam and Yuksam, unreliable connectivity to CSCs, connectivity to the banking sector and lastly upgradation of Exchange infrastructure.
BSNL brought forward their grievance to the members of the committee regarding cable theft of the OFC which was the root cause of constant internet connectivity blackouts and requested the Police department to assist in catching the culprits and also prevent further cable theft in the future, the release adds.
The CGM, BSNL assured the members of the committee that some progress has been made in the telecom scenario and also few more mobile towers have been set up to improve mobile coverage in the state, the release further informs.

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