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BSNL, ISRO to join hands for providing e-tuition facility

PUDUCHERRY: The BSNL, Puducherry region, will soon tie up with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to provide e-tuition facility to students pursuing various courses in Industrial Training Institutes in Puducherry region.

“We had a detailed discussion with a team of officials from the ISRO. We will soon enter into an agreement with them to provide their distance education programme for ITI students through our broadband connectivity,” Deputy General Manager (Technical) A. Robert Jerard Ravi told The Hindu.

Once it was launched, the BSNL customers would be able to avail themselves of ISRO’s distance education programme by logging on to e-tuition website www.etutorpdy.bsnl.co.in, Mr. Ravi said. Besides giving value addition to the e-tuition initiative launched a month ago, it would help to promote the broadband connectivity and regain its lost ground in landline connection.

Mr. Ravi said the BSNL’s landline connection had picked up in the last two years after a slump in the wake of introduction of mobile phone service. “In the last two years, we have made 30 per cent of our loss in landline connection. The BSNL Puducherry region at present has about 72,000 landline connections and 13,000 broadband connections,” he said. The BSNL also proposed to tie-up with the Puducherry government to provide e-tuition facility to all government schools. Forty government schools in Puducherry had taken broadband connection, Mr. Ravi said, adding that in the coming days more schools would be given the facility.

In the next two months, the exchange here would be expanded to increase the broadband connectivity from its present capacity of 20,000 lines. To provide more value addition to the broadband customers, the BSNL planned to introduce video phone service. Once the video phone is introduced, there would be no need to have a video call. The phone would have a small screen to display picture along with a high-resolution camera and work on an ordinary telephone line. Another project being planed was providing closed circuit television for broadband customers, Mr. Ravi said. This would help shop owners to monitor the activities in their outlets from home as well as parents to keep a watch on their wards from office, he said.

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