(a) whether there are any schemes for expansion of telephone network in villages of Maharashtra during the current and the next year;
(b) if so, the details thereof, district-wise and if not, the reasons therefor;
(c) whether the telephone exchanges have been set up and telephone connections provided in all the backward areas of Maharashtra;
(d) if so, the details thereof, district-wise; and
(e) if not , the reasons therefor?
Minister of State for Communications
(SHRI TAPAN SIKDAR)
a) &(b) Yes, Sir. The schemes for expansion of telephone network in the villages of Maharashtra for the current year and the next year are given below:-
Year 2000-2001District-wise details are enclosed in Annex-I.
Item Maharashtra State
New Rural exchanges 345 Net Switching capacity 1,45,000
S.No. District New exchanges Switching capacityANNEX-II
1 Ahmedanagar 15 11500 2 Akola 7 1000 3 Washim 8 1500 4 Amravati 14 3000 5 Aurangabad 15 6000 6 Beed 9 1500 7 Bhandara 2 2000 8 Gondia 2 2000 9 Buldhana 7 3000 10 Chandrapur 7 2500 11 Dhule 5 2000 12 Nandurbar 2 1000 13 Gadchiroli 2 1000 14 Jalgaon 3 6000 15 Jalna 5 1500 16 Kalyan 5 4000 17 Kolhapur 30 15000 18 Latur 20 4000 19 Nagpur 6 4000 20 Nanded 10 4000 21 Nasik 20 6000 22 Osmanabad 5 2000 23 Parbhani 7 2000 24 Hingoli 3 1000 25 Pune 25 14500 26 Raigad 5 4000 27 Ratnagiri 8 3000 28 Sangli 30 15000 29 Satara 20 6000 30 Sindhudurg 9 3000 31 Solapur 20 6000 32 Wardha 2 3500 33 Yeotmal 17 2500
Total 345 145000
SL. District Tot. No Vill. No. of Switching DELs Waiting list. No. of vill with exchges capacity VPT. 1 Ahmednagar 118 77 7 1048 753 284 2 Amravati 344 98 3 1120 888 16 3 Bhandara 284 167 9 1580 1108 65 4 Gondia 5 Chandrapur 742 270 11 1376 730 95 6 Dhule 997 600 43 10016 7953 550 7 Nandurbar 8 Gadchiroli 1450 - 19 4288 2449 235 9 Jalgaon 63 20 2 272 225 13 10 Kalyan 1135 500 57 38288 26821 4903 11 Nagpur 97 60 4 872 483 13 12 Nanded 185 70 8 2776 2314 95 13 Nasik 828 500 47 12376 8548 1953 14 Pune 144 27 2 304 208 60 15 Raigad 47 41 3 520 328 52 16 Yeotmal 528 176 11 2784 1926 164
Total 6962 2606 226 77620 54734 8498