GoI extends spl. package to isles

DD services improvement on card in isles; 1000 dish TVs to be available
in isles
THE DAILY TELEGRAMS, July 13, 2007

Port Blair, July 12

A special package for expansion and improvement of Doordarshan
services in the A& N Islands has been extended by the I & B Ministry,
Govt. of India recently. Under the scheme, 1000 C band Dish TV sets will
be available here free of cost for use by various public institutions. A
meeting was held in the chamber of the Secretary (IP) at Raj Niwas today
to discuss the matter of expansion and augmentation of DD services in
the islands. the meeting was attended by the Director, DDK, Port Blair
and DD Engineers besides the officials of Information and Publicity
Division.

The meeting was informed that six out of the eight new Very Low Power
Transmitter (VLPT) will be installed by December this year in order to
ensure better reception of Doordarshan programmes, one each at
Kadamtala, Long Island, Harinagar, Neil Island, Ramakrishna Pur and
Govindnagar. The remaining two VLPTs will come up three to four months
later at Chowra and Gandhi nagar. Similarly, the exisiting VLPTs in
Diglipur, Mayabunder, Rangat, Hut Bay, Nancowry and Campbell Bay are to
be upgraded soon to augment the services.

The meeting proposed to distribute the Dish TVs (DTH) to all the 67
Panchayats, nine tehsils, Panchayat Samities, Health centers i.e PHCs
and CHCs, schools and other educational institutions and govt. offices
in different parts of the islands. the DD Engineers present in the
meeting informed that before installation of Dish tvs which are expected
to be available by the end of this year, the uplinking facilities from
Delhi to Port Blair will have to be completed. Once this is done, the
people of remote and far-flung places will be able to see the local
programmes telecast by Doordarshan, Port Blair. The facilities of DTH is
being planned to be extended to the remotest part of the islands in
order to keep the people informed instantaneously the latest development
taking place this territory. Through this service, even information
relating to disaster preparedness in the event of natural calamity can
be beamed. The DTH service promises to provide multi-channel coverage
with atleast 10 TV channels through DTH C Band.