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08/03/24 13:59 PM IST

Centre to rope in ISRO to provide Internet in 80 remote tribal villages

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  • The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is planning to collaborate with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to deploy V-SAT stations on a pilot basis for around 80 tribal villages in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Maharashtra.
V-SAT stations
  • The collaboration with ISRO will see the government set up V-SAT (very small apperture terminal) stations for these 80 villages that are geographically remote and have difficult terrain, challenges that have kept them out of reach of connectivity for the longest time.
  • This pilot project would be monitored so that it could be scaled up to other similar tribal villages in other States as well, adding the goal is also to help with e-governance in these remote areas.
  • The Ministry is in the process of identifying these 80 villages in these four States and soon the modalities of the project will be worked out.
  • Apart from this, the Tribal Affairs Ministry is partnering with AIIMS Delhi for conducting advanced research on tribal health issues with special emphasis on Sickle Cell Anemia and in organising training programmes for doctors and paramedical staff working in tribal areas. Plans are also on for setting up a Bhagwan Birsa Munda Chair of Tribal Health and Haematology at the AIIMS in the Capital.
  • A proposal has been brought to set up a similar specialised department for Appropriate Technology and Entrepreneurship in collaboration with IIT Delhi and the IIM in Kolkata.
  • One other proposal was also tabled to collaborate with the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru for setting up a training facility which will offer courses on semi-conductor to tribal students.
About VSAT Network
  • A very small aperture terminal is a two-way ground station that transmits and receives data from satellites.
  • A VSAT is less than three meters tall and is capable of both narrow and broadband data to satellites in orbit in real-time.
  • The data can then be redirected to other remote terminals or hubs around the planet.
  • VSAT networks have a number of commercial applications, including, perhaps most notably, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
Source- The Hindu

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