{"id":72366,"date":"2020-12-10T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=72366"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T05:33:02","slug":"cabinet-approves-submarine-optical-fibre-cable-connectivity-between-mainland-lakshadweep-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-submarine-optical-fibre-cable-connectivity-between-mainland-lakshadweep-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves Submarine Optical Fibre Cable Connectivity between Mainland, Lakshadweep Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/cabinet-approves-provision-of-submarine-optical-fibre-cable-connectivity-between-mainland-lakshadweep-islands\/story-AjPDZ59UEq60fTTAZHT9MP.html\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Union Cabinet has given its approval for Provision of Submarine Optical Fibre Cable Connectivity between Mainland (Kochi) and Lakshadweep Islands (KLI Project).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Objective:\u00a0<\/strong>The Project envisages provision of a direct communication link through a dedicated submarine Optical Fibre Cable(OFC) between Kochi and 11 Islands of Lakshadweep viz. Kavaratti, Kalpeni, Agati, Amini, Androth, Minicoy, Bangaram, Bitra, Chetlat, Kiltan and Kadmat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:\u00a0<\/strong>The project would be funded by Universal Service Obligation Fund(USOF).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementation:\u00a0<\/strong>Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) has been nominated as Project Execution Agency and Telecommunications Consultant India Ltd. (TCIL) as the Technical Consultant of the Project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Target:\u00a0<\/strong>The project is targeted to be completed by May 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Universal Service Obligation Fund(USOF):\u00a0<\/strong>It was set up in 2002 and was given statutory status under the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act, 2003.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Objective:\u00a0<\/strong>Enabling rural Indians to achieve their fullest potential and participate productively in the development of the nation by virtue of being effectively connected through a reliable and ubiquitous telecommunications network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source :\u00a0Click here News:\u00a0Union Cabinet has given its approval for Provision of Submarine Optical Fibre Cable Connectivity between Mainland (Kochi) and Lakshadweep Islands (KLI Project). Facts: Objective:\u00a0The Project envisages provision of a direct communication link through a dedicated submarine Optical Fibre Cable(OFC) between Kochi and 11 Islands of Lakshadweep viz. Kavaratti, Kalpeni, Agati, Amini, Androth,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-submarine-optical-fibre-cable-connectivity-between-mainland-lakshadweep-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cabinet approves Submarine Optical Fibre Cable Connectivity between Mainland, Lakshadweep Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1428],"class_list":["post-72366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-st_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703053384},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}