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Over 1 lakh new phone lines in a year

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17. The Centre has proposed to launch a Rs. 68-crore scheme to increase the capacity of telephone exchanges in Karnataka by over one lakh lines over the next year. The project will cover almost all parts of the State.

In reply to a written question in Lok Sabha, the Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Shakeel Ahmad, said that of the 1,09,000 new lines proposed to be added under the expansion project, 34,000 will be commissioned by June and 75,000 lines by the end of March 2006.

Bangalore will get thehighest number of lines (18,750), followed by Dakshina Kannada (17,250 lines), Hubli (10,500), Mysore (8,250), Kolar (6,750), Uttara Kannada (6,000), Belgaum, Bijapur, Gulbarga (5,250 each), Bellary, Raichur, Tumkur (4,500 each), Shimoga (3,750), Mandya, Davangere, Hassan (3,000 each), Chikmagalur, Bidar (2,250 each), and Madikeri (1,500).

In Bangalore, the maximum additions will be in Dodballapur, Hoskote, Nelamangala (2,250 lines each), followed by Channapatna and Kanakapura (1,500 lines each). The other areas selected for additional lines in the districts are: Anekal, Bidadi, Devanahalli, Dommasandra, Hebbagudi, Jigadi, Kudur, Magadi, Ramanagara, Sathanur, Tavarekere and Tyamagondlu. Each of them will get 750 additional lines.

Among other major centres in the State, Mangalore and Hubli will get 4,500 new lines each, Chikballapur 1,500 lines and Bagalkot, Chitradurga, Udupi, Agumbe, Karkala, Gulbarga, Belur, Karwar, Nanjangud, and Gadag 750 new lines each.

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