Knowledge Commission to connect 5,000 educational hubs: Pitroda
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 18:30 IST
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New Delhi: The National Knowledge Commission (NKC), a high-level advisory body to the Indian Prime Minister has recommended to connect at least 5,000 educational hubs across the country through broadband. "We have recommended for broadband networking of 5,000 knowledge hubs including universities, colleges, libraries, laboratories, medical centers and research hubs all over India," said Sam Pitroda, chairman, NKC. "The central government has also been advised to connect all the research centers of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Once connected people can easily access the research findings and other important resources to read, write and develop it further," Pitroda mentioned on the sidelines of an Indian-American physicians' program. Pitroda also said that several telecom players have expressed their desire in this project and they can be roped in for this nationwide 100-megabit broadband networking. "It could be a public-private partnership involving several telecom service providers like Bharti, Reliance, BSNL." He said India has a huge pool of fiber optics and it should be utilized to "update, improve and upgrade our knowledge sources". "We have given our recommendations and in all likelihood things should start moving by the end of this year."
Source: IANS
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