Gurudas Kamat, Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India signed a Country Agreement with Mr. Mothetjoa Metsing, Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Kingdom of Lesotho here today for linking Lesotho with Pan African e-Network. Kingdom of Lesotho is the 36th African country who has signed the Agreement. Speaking on the occasion, Sh. Kamat said that that the signing of Country Agreement with Kingdom of Lesotho, is an example of South-South cooperation. Assuring all cooperation in fields of Telcom and IT, the Minister added that telecom revolution is taking place world over and this sector generally has remained untouched from recession. The Pan-African e-Network will provide e-services with priority on tele-education and tele-medicine services and VVIP connectivity (for Video-conferencing and VoIP services) among the Heads of the States.
The basic objective of the project is to help Africa in capacity building by way of imparting quality education to African students from Indian Universities / Educational Institutions and to provide tele-medicine services by way of on-line medical consultation in the patient-end locations from Indian medical specialists in various disciplines selected by African Union for its member States.
PAN AFRICA e-Network project is being funded by Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India with an approved budget cost of Rs.542.9cr.. Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), a Government of India enterprise, is designated as turnkey implementing agency for the project with a role to design the network, procure and install the equipments and provide operation and management services for five years after commissioning of the network in the respective countries. TCIL is in advance stage of commissioning the project. Network has already been commissioned in 20 countries.
TCIL had earlier commissioned Ethiopia Pilot Project on Tele-education and Tele-medicine in February, 2006.
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