Telecom Lead Asia: Hughes Communications India has won a contract from the Punjab government to supply and operate a satellite-based network to deliver education content to students using the INSAT-4CR satellite.
Hughes claims that the win marks the largest ever in India for a satellite-based education network by any VSAT service provider.
Hughes will provision satellite-based network to connect approximately 2960 schools with educational content and lectures either pre-recorded or set up as live telecasts from studios based in Mohali and broadcast across Punjab.
“The education officers in all the districts of Punjab are directed to make all the preparations and ask the school heads to inform the students about this course, so that more and more students can benefit from this initiative,” said Kahan Singh Pannu, director general of school education and secretary and project director for the EDUSAT project, Punjab Government.
“In this program we’ll leverage best-of-breed technology and project management practices to ensure the most rapid and economical solution to help close the digital divide across the state,” said Shivaji Chatterjee, vice president at Hughes India.
This important development emphasizes HCIL’s capability to provide high quality and secure satellite networking solutions using its award winning technology and services. HCIL is also implementing strategic projects with other state governments including Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Andaman, Lakshadweep, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, J&K and Orissa.
