Lok Sabha Question No. 229 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-02-24
Subject: Telephone Exchanges
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: SADASHIV KISAN LOKHANDE, GOPAL CHINAYYA SHETTY, ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.229 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24 th  FEBRUARY, 2016

## TELEPHONE EXCHANGES

- †229.  SHRI SADASHIV LOKHANDE:

SHRI GOPAL SHETTY:

SHRI ASHOK MAHADEORAO NETE:

Will  the  Minister  of  COMMUNICATIONS  AND  INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  District  Telephone  Authorities  have  not  been  able  to  provide  the telephone  connections  to  the  consumers  on  demand  in  various  telephone  districts  in many States;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Maharashtra and the action taken by the Government in this regard;
- (c) the funds allocated for expansion and speeding up telecom facilities in various States, State-wise;
- (d) the details of waiting list for  telephone  connections  in  various  telephone exchanges, State-wise; and
- (e) the steps taken by the Government to clear the wait list at all the exchanges and the action taken to modernize the telephone exchanges, State-wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

- (a) & (b)       Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is providing telephone connections to its customers on demand in the technically feasible areas in all the Telecom Circles in the country including Maharashtra.
- (c) Capital  expenditure  funds  allocated  by  BSNL  for  expansion  and  speeding  up telecom  facilities  in  various  circles  for  the  FY  2015-16  are  given  circle  wise    in Annexure-I.
- (d) & (e) The  waiting  list  of  BSNL  for  wireline  telephones  circle-wise  is  as  per Annexure-II and  it  makes  the  technically  non-feasible  areas  as feasible  based  on  its techno-commercial considerations.  To modernize the exchanges, BSNL has planned for  replacement / migration of Legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to Next Generation Network (NGN).

## Annexure-I

## Circle wise details of Capital expenditure funds allocated for expansion and speeding up telecom facilities for the FY 2015-16  by BSNL

| S. No.   | Name of Circle          | Capital expenditure funds allocated for expansion (in Rs crore)   |
|----------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1        | Andaman and Nicobar     | 22.82                                                             |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh          | 412.17                                                            |
| 3        | Assam                   | 117.70                                                            |
| 4        | Bihar                   | 200.85                                                            |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh            | 98.91                                                             |
| 6        | Gujarat                 | 275.18                                                            |
| 7        | Haryana                 | 163.94                                                            |
| 8        | Himachal Pradesh        | 108.33                                                            |
| 9        | Jammu and Kashmir       | 99.42                                                             |
| 10       | Jharkhand               | 173.42                                                            |
| 11       | Karnataka               | 405.25                                                            |
| 12       | Kerala                  | 584.11                                                            |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh          | 246.57                                                            |
| 14       | Maharashtra             | 397.83                                                            |
| 15       | North East-I            |                                                                   |
| 16       | North East-II           | 266.08                                                            |
| 17       | Odisha                  | 296.18                                                            |
| 18       | Punjab                  | 295.79                                                            |
| 19       | Rajasthan               | 309.94                                                            |
| 20       | Tamilnadu               | 523.94                                                            |
| 21       | Uttarakhand             | 79.41                                                             |
| 22       | Uttar Pradesh (East)    |                                                                   |
| 23       | Uttar Pradesh (West)    | 577.21                                                            |
| 24       | West Bengal             | 431.22                                                            |
| 25       | Other units and reserve | 1709.76                                                           |
|          | TOTAL                   | 7796.03                                                           |

Contd…….3/-

## Circle wise waiting list of BSNL for wireline telephones

|   S. No. | Name of Circle       |   Waiting List |
|----------|----------------------|----------------|
|        1 | Andaman and Nicobar  |             00 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh       |            258 |
|        3 | Assam                |             00 |
|        4 | Bihar                |             00 |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh         |            595 |
|        6 | Gujarat              |            719 |
|        7 | Haryana              |           3075 |
|        8 | Himachal Pradesh     |            175 |
|        9 | Jammu and Kashmir    |           1014 |
|       10 | Jharkhand            |             00 |
|       11 | Karnataka            |          10084 |
|       12 | Kerala               |            253 |
|       13 | Madhya Pradesh       |           2900 |
|       14 | Maharashtra          |          16448 |
|       15 | North East-I         |             00 |
|       16 | North East-II        |             00 |
|       17 | Odisha               |             00 |
|       18 | Punjab               |            279 |
|       19 | Rajasthan            |           5493 |
|       20 | Tamilnadu            |             08 |
|       21 | Uttarakhand          |            125 |
|       22 | Uttar Pradesh (East) |           4163 |
|       23 | Uttar Pradesh (West) |            903 |
|       24 | West Bengal          |             00 |

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