OUR CONTRIBUTION TO RURAL CONNECTIVITYBy Archana.G.Gulati-JCCA Haryana

USO FUNDING IN HARYANA

Status Of Rural Telephony in Haryana There are 6764 Villages in Haryana as per Census

2001 Almost all have been covered with Village Public

Telephones. 762 villages have a population of more than 2000

and no PCO, thus qualifying for subsidy for provision of Rural Community Phone. Subsidy is being disbursed towards RCPs being provided by BSNL and Reliance Infocomm.

Subsidy is being disbursed to BSNL and Reliance for a total of 32,722 Rural House Hold Dels installed between 1.4.2003 to 31.3.2005.

Subsidy is being paid to Tata T eleservices for Rural Dels installed between 1.4.2005 and 31.3.2007.

USO-HARYANA

9 SSAs and 55 SDCAs

:

LL VPTs-6723

MARR VPTs-NIL

SATELLITE VPTs-3

IN HARYANA THERE ARE

USO At present Subsidy is paid towards:

1. Subsidy towards Operation and Maintenance of existing VPTs. (Identified as per 1999 Census)-BSNL.

2.Subsidy towards Replacement of MARR VPTs after 30.6.2003 and Operation and Maintenance of new VPTS installed in their place. Valid for 9 years from 25.9.03-BSNL.

3.Subsidy towards Replacement of MARR VPTs between 1.4.2002 and 30.6.2003.(subsidy support includes annualised Capital recovery

and Opex) for period of 7 years-BSNL.

USO

4. Subsidy towards provision of Rural Community Phones: BSNL and Reliance5. Subsidy towards Provision of Rural Dels-BSNL and Reliance(1.4.02-31.3.05): and Tata Tele Services (1.4.05 to 31.3.07)

USO

During: 2004-05

Claims Settled for: Rs 1,73,92,997

Five SSAs physically inspected and

reported on.

Hundred Percent Verification of VPTs against billing records carried out in preference to further physical inspection as desired by USF Admn.

SATELLITE VPT IN KALKA SDCA

PHYSICALLY INSPECTED IN 2004-05

VPT AT BANYOLA VILLAGE

USO

During: 2005-06 Claims Settled: Rs 25,66,94,364 on

account of various Agreements so far. Fully verified VPT list submitted to DOT HQ

after examination of BSNL replies to our Verification reports.

We are now working with BSNL to get all faulty/Disconnected VPTs made functional

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