RAILTEL ON TAKE-OFF STAGE
The RailTel Corporation
of India, a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Railways,
is now on a take-off stage.
Set up in September,2000,
RailTel has envisaged completing Optic Fibre Cable (OFC) network
with capacity and 16 connectivity on 15,000 route kilometres in
the current financial year 2003-2004.
The RailTel is intended
to modernize the Railways communication and market the surplus
capacity to earn revenues. It earned Rs.45 lakhs during 2001-2002,
Rs. 9.5 crores in 2002-2003 and Rs.4.98 crores during the first
five months of the current financial year 2003-2004 from April,
2003 to August, 2003 from leasing of bandwidth and other telecom
infrastructure.
Internet Cyber Café
set up at New Delhi Railway Station, providing facilities of Internet
browsing, e-mailing, video-conferencing, IP phones, photocopying
and printing, is planned to be provided at 200 stations in the
current financial year 2003-2004.
The RailTel would
also provide Internet on one of the trains in the current year
buoyed by the success of a trial of Internet on a train in April,
2003 between Tughlakabad and Faridabad stations.
