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INDIAN GOVT RAISES TELECOM PLAN OUTLAY IN FY06.
NEW DELHI, March 2 Asia Pulse - With increased focus on telecom services as a thrust area of infrastructure, the government has raised the total plan outlay of Department of Telecom by 21.79 per cent over last fiscal to Rs 118.01 billion (US$2.7 billion) in 2005-06.
State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), which has been entrusted with the task of connecting the rural India in a major way, has been given a major chunk of this outlay at Rs 96.96 billion, an increase of over 46 per cent.
The telecom service PSU MTNL gets a lower support at Rs 18.87 billion for the current fiscal against Rs 22.20 billion in the last fiscal.
C-DoT, a telecom research organisation, has been provided for Rs 494 million. In the last two fiscals, the allocation for C-DoT was nil. With DoT encouraging R&D in telecom, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, INDIAN GOVT RAISES TELECOM PLAN OUTLAY IN FY06.