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SOLAN, Oct 3: The Department of Telecommunications will cover 2,000 new villages, including 400 villages in Solan district, under the Village Public Telephone scheme, this year. Besides, 20 new inmarsat telephones would also be installed in remote areas of the district. Himachal telecom circle chief general manager N.S. Gill announced this after inaugurating a 2,500-line C-DoT MBM exchange at Baddi yesterday.
Besides clearing the waiting list by the end of this year, the commissioning of this telephone exchange would also help introduce internet service, a modern high-speed signalling system CCS-7 and video conferencing facility at Baddi. The exchange would also substantially reduce the call establishing time and post-dialling delay.
Gill said the department also planned to enhance the switching capacity of about 83,000 lines and nearly 53,000 new telephone connections would be released in the state this year. In addition to the expansion of almost all urban exchanges, including the existing exchanges, new C-DoT main exchanges with capacity of 2,000-4,000 lines was also planned for Chamba, Dalhousie, Mehtapur, Jogindernagar, Rekongpeo and Rohru.
Besides expanding the existing exchanges at Parwanoo and Dharampur to a capacity of 500 lines each, exchanges at Daralaghat, Dadahu, Dhalohuan, Manpura and Dagshai would also be expanded.
The department would also install seven new exchanges at Shirol, Kundulu, Man and Paratha in Solan district and Dolangi, Toru and Timbi in Sirmaur district.
