OdishaPlus Bureau
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the submarine Optical Fibre Cable between Chennai and Port Blair via video conferencing. Earlier the foundation stone for this project was laid by the PM on December 30, 2018 at Port Blair.
चेन्नई से पोर्ट ब्लेयर, पोर्ट ब्लेयर से लिटिल अंडमान और पोर्ट ब्लेयर से स्वराज द्वीप तक, अंडमान निकोबार के एक बड़े हिस्से में ये सेवा आज से शुरु हो चुकी है।
मैं अंडमान-निकोबार के लोगों को अनंत अवसरों से भरी इस कनेक्टिविटी के लिए बहुत-बहुत बधाई देता हूं: PM @narendramodi
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) August 10, 2020
The submarine optical fibre cable link will deliver bandwidth of 2 x 200 Gigabits per second (Gbps) between Chennai and Port Blair, and 2 x 100 Gbps between Port Blair and the other islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Termed as an early Independence gift to the people, there is also a proposal to build a transshipment port in Great Nicobar at an estimated cost of ₹10,000 crore.There is a provision of reliable, robust, and high-speed telecom and broadband facilities in these Islands will be a landmark achievement from the viewpoint of consumers, as well as for strategic and governance reasons.
4G mobile services, which were constrained due to limited backhaul bandwidth provided via satellite will also see a major improvement. About 2,300 km of submarine OFC cable has been laid at a cost of about ₹1,224 crore and the project has been completed in time.