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Mrunal [Economic Survey Ch10] (Part 3 of 5) Telecommunication and IT: E-Nayana, BOSS, SAMEER, NIXI Print
[Economic Survey Ch10] (Part 3 of 5) Telecommunication and IT: ENayana, BOSS, SAMEER, NIXI
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Communication Telecom Tele-density Important org under DoT TRAI TSDAT National Telecom Policy (NTP) 2012 National policy on Electronics, 2012 USOF National optical fiber network National e-governance plan (NeGP) 1. SWAN 2. Common services centres 3. State data centres 4. e-district 5. MSDG 6. INDG Electronic delivery of services bill 2011 NIC 1. NiceMail 2. e-Lekha 3. VAHAAN 4. SAARTHI National knowledge network National knowledge Commission Information technology (Amendment) Act 2008 FESTIVOX BOSS Controller of certifying authorities (CCA) ICERT Societies / autonomous bodies under Deity 1. SAMEER 2. C-DAC 1. GARUDA
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STPI NIELIT ERNET Media lab Asia NIXI 22. Business Services 23. IT and ITeS 24. IT sector: Challenges
25. 12th FPY: Telecom and IT 1. Spectrum Trading 2. 12th FPY targets for Telecom 3. 12th FYP: Themes for IT 26. Timeline: Telecom and IT 27. Mock Questions first: a correction in the earlier article on Ch.9: IIP contains 682 items clubbed in 399 groups: 1 in Mining, 1 in Electricity and 397 in Manufacturing.
Communication
As your already know from the previous article, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Under Kapil zero-loss Sibbal) Contains three departments 1. Department of Posts 2. Department of Telecommunications (also looks after wireless) 3. Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) We already saw topics related to Department of Post in previous article click me. In the present article, well see the topics related to remaining two departments.
Telecom
India has 2nd largest telecom network in the world after China
Tele-density
It shows the number of telephones per 100 persons. Teledensity @end of Oct 12 Approx. % Rural 41
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Urban Overall
159 77
MTNL 86
PSU (Navratna)
BSNL 2000
TRAI
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) established by an Act of parliament in 1997 (hence TRAI=Statutory body) Chairman=Rahul Khullar To notify the rates at which telecommunication services within India and outside India shall be provided Spectrum management lay down the standards of quality of service to be provided by the service providers conduct the periodical survey of such service provided by the service providers so as to protect interest of the telecom users ensure effective compliance of Universal Service Obligations TRAI also makes recommendations to the Government on a host of issues including conditions for entry of new service providers and terms and conditions of licences granted to service providers
TSDAT
Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) Setup in 2000 To hear appeal against any direction/ decision of TRAI to adjudicate any dispute between a licensor and a licensee; between two or more service providers; between a service provider and a group of consumers
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#2: rural
1. Increase rural tele-density to 70 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020. 2. Provide high-speed and high-quality broadband access to all village panchayats through a combination of technologies by the year 2014 and progressively to all villages and habitations by 2020.
#3: internet
1. transition to the new Internet Protocol (IPv6) in the country in a phased and time-bound manner by 2020 2. Work towards Right to Broadband. a. Provide affordable and reliable broadband-on-demand by the year 2015 b. 175 million broadband connections by the year 2017 c. 600 million by the year 2020 at minimum 2 Mbps download speed and make available higher speeds of at least 100 Mbps on demand
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e-waste handling
USOF
Universal service fund obligation For provision of phone lines in non-viable areas More details already covered in www.mrunal.org/2012/09/yb-usof.html
SWAN
for establishing one lakh Internet enabled centres in rural areas through public-private partnership
to provide common IT infrastructure for hosting the government applications and softwares
e-district
it is a mission mode project under the national governance plan it aims said electronic delivery of citizen centric services at district and subdistrict level for example issuing certificates of birth, death, domicile, nationality, caste, marriage, income, employment etc social welfare, pension, scholarship, ration card etc.
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MSDG
Mobile service delivery Gateway to use the potential of mobile phone for expanding access in reach of public services in India by Department of Electronics and IT M-Appstore= A mobile application store, launcher under MSDG (mobile service delivery Gateway). India Development Gateway Initiative by Department of Electronics and IT (Deity) for providing e-knowledge and ICT-applications for rural empowerment
INDG
NIC
National Informatics Centre (NIC) under Department of information and technology established in 1976 provides ICT infrastructure for governance NICNET= the ICT network of NIC- it provides network connectivity to all ministries/departments of Central, State governments, union Territories and about 625 districts
NICs E-mail service NICs Electronic payment and accounting system software for automated vehicle registration Software for issuing driving licence
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2008: it was amended to provide for data protection, cyber security and new forms of cyber crimes
FESTIVOX
open source software framework it is used to develop text to speech (TTS) software is for Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil and other Indian languages. It will be integrated with screen readers in Windows and Linux operating softwares for use of blind people.
BOSS
Bharat operating systems solution it is a GNU/Linux -based operating system with Indian language support for both desktop and server versions it is an example of free and open source software solution (FOSS) developed by the National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) of India under Department of Electronics and IT (DIETY)
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Signature certificates such Digital Signature certificates are used in RGTS and NEFT of RBI, emails, chat trading, income tax return etc.
ICERT
Indian computer emergency response team it is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents as and when they occur
SAMEER
Society for applied microwave Electronics engineering and research it is an automated research and development laboratory under the Department of Electronics and IT work: doppler radars, observation platforms for Indian meteorological department, medical electronics etc.
C-DAC
Centre for development of advanced computing It is a cyber infrastructure connecting computational nodes, mass storage and scientific instruments distributed across the country. GARUDA is Indias first national grid initiative bringing together academic, scientific and research communities open source based cloud stack It contains all pre-requisite tools for implement your own cloud network.
GARUDA
Meghdoot
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eAgriEn
Application of Electronics in agriculture and environment. This includes electronic nose, region, smell and tongue acknowledges for quality monitoring of agricultural products such as turmeric, Cheney, Rice etc.
Bharatiya AFIS
E-Nayana Software
for mobile tele-ophthalmology. It allows doctors to examine eye patients via videoconferencing in rural and tribal areas, Softwares helps transferring electronic health records of patients and providing them expert consultation immediately Supercomputer built by C-DAC, Pune.
PARAM STPI
software technology Parks of India established in 1991 for promotion of software exports from India
NIELIT
National institute of Electronics and information technology Formerly known as DOEACC society offers computer courses such as DOEACC O/A/B/C etc. CCC: course on computer concepts, launched in 99, gives 80 hours of basic computer literacy. This course is recognized for job application under State and central services.
ERNET
Autonomous scientific society It is a mix of terrestrial and satellite based Wide area network (WAN) Serves institutions in health, agro, education, sci-tech and other sectors.
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Not-for-profit organization To bring the most advanced ICT technologies for the benefit of common man ICT for health, edu, livelihood, rural connectivity and empowerment
NIXI
National internet exchange of India Not for profit organization To facilitate domestic internet traffic between ISP member. This helps in efficient use of international bandwidth, save foreign exchange. Now lets check some stuff from economic survey ch10.
Business Services
It includes computer-related services, R&D, accounting services and legal services, and renting of machinery.
IT and ITeS
has four major sub-components: 1. 2. 3. 4. IT services, business process outsourcing (BPO), engineering services and R&D software products.
IT sector: Challenges
Slowdown and protectionism
global slowdown has impacted the revenues of Indian IT companies. Outsourcing has also become a national/election/political issue in several developed countries, like the USA and the UK. Their governments are now supporting their local/domestic BPO industry through various means e.g. giving tax benefits to companies to dont outsource work. BPO industry in the UK employs 800,000 British workers and is emerging as a vital part of the economy.
Competition
Largest exporters in Computer and IT services 1. EU 2. India
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3. USA But in recent years, many new competitors like China, Israel and the Philippines have emerged. Indias new competitors in Voice contracts / BPO service segment Asia Africa Latin America Europe China, Philippines Malasia Egypt, Morocco Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Columbia Poland, Ireland
According to NASSCOM, in the last five years, India has lost about 10 per cent market share to the rest of the world in the world BPO space, most of which is in the voice contract segment.
Language proficiency
China BPO sector faces challenges in English accent and language proficiency, but their government is spending lot of public funds to improve English at schools and vocational training and thus China may eventually emerge as a threat to India. (means we too need to start a Rajiv Gandhi English proficiency Yojana: RGEPY lolz). Philippines is a serious competitor of India in both hardware and software segments of IT To address the rising wages in the urban BPO space, there is a need to move more towards rural areas, for which skill development, and English language training with American and different European accents is necessary.
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countries have permitted spectrum trading in the secondary market. (just like how shares and bonds are traded). Spectrum trading is likely to improve spectrum efficiency, boost market competition and provide incentives to innovation to service providers
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2008 122 licenses for 2G spectrum auctioned on first-come-first-serve basis (@2001s prices) and thus came the 2G scam. 2009 Satyam accounting scandal 2010 National knowledge network SC cancelled the 122 licenses for 2G given by the totally awesome you 2012 know who. World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai. 2012 more details already covered in old article click me 2017 Increase rural tele-density to 70 2020 Increase rural tele-density to 100
Mock Questions
1. Correct Chronological order (older to newer) a. BSNL, MTNL, TRAI b. TRAI, BSNL, MTNL c. MTNL, BSNL, TRAI d. None of Above 2. Rahul Khullar is the chairman of a. CCI b. BSNL c. MTNL d. TRAI e. None of above 3. Which of the following is not related with National Telecom Policy 2012? a. Mobile number portability b. Broadband penetration c. IPV6 d. Electronic System and Design and Manufacturing 4. National Telecom Policy 2012, wants to increase Rural tele-density to 100 by a. 2015 b. 2020 c. 2017 d. 2025 5. Teledensity is measured as a. No of telephones per 100 persons b. No of telephones per 1000 persons c. No of telephones in the given area d. No of telephones in the given telecom circle 6. National optical fiber network aims to provide broadband connection to a. Institutes of higher learning b. Primary and secondary schools c. Courts d. Gram Panchyats 7. M-Appstore belongs to
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a. Google b. Apple c. DEITY d. Blackberry/RIM India Development Gateway is an initiative of a. FICCI b. Commerce Ministry c. Ministry of MSME d. Department of Electronics and IT What is the purpose of India Development gateway? a. Raise funds for Development of MSME b. Provide vocational skills to Rural entrepreneurs c. provide e-knowledge and ICT apps for Rural empowerment d. None of Above NIC falls under a. DEITY b. National knowledge Commission c. National knowledge network d. Dept of Telecom NICEMAIL is a service of a. NIC b. Yahoo c. Blackberry/RIM d. None of above VAHAAN is a. a software for automated vehicle registration b. a voice based GPS navigation system for vehicles c. a software to track cargo-trucks via GPS d. None of above What is SAARTHI? a. a robot to drive vehicles for physically handicapped persons b. a voice based GPS navigation system for vehicles c. Software to issuing driving licenses d. None of above Correct statements about National knowledge network a. It is a high level advisory body to PM of India b. Sam Pitroda is its chairman c. It aims to interconnect institutions of higher learning with highspeed internet connection d. None of above BOSS operating system is meant for a. Desktop PC b. Servers c. Both d. None
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16. Which of the following org. is/are related with Dept. of electronics and IT? a. SAMEER b. C-DAC c. Media lab Asia d. All of above 17. which of the following software is not Developed by CDAC? a. GARUDA b. Meghdoot c. Meghdoot millenium d. E-nayana 18. E-Nayana software is meant for a. Tele-ophthalmology b. doing retinal scans for UID c. both d. none 19. What is the new name of DOEACC society? a. C-DAC b. C-DOT c. NIELIT d. NIXI 20. What is the purpose of Media lab Asia a. Telecast doordarshan programs in South east Asian countries b. Produce documentaries from neighboring countries for Prasar Bharti c. Bring ICT technologies for benefit of common man d. None of above 21. NIXI falls under a. NASDAQ b. SENSEX c. DEITY d. None of Above 22. Among the following, which company is oldest? a. TCS b. Infosys c. WIPRO d. SATYAM 23. Among the following, which company is youngest? a. TCS b. Infosys c. WIPRO d. SATYAM 24. Correct Chronological order (older to newer) a. NIC, National Knowledge Commission (NKC), National knowledge network (NKN) b. NIC, NKN, NKC c. NKC, NIC, NKN
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d. None of above 25. Bharatiya Automated fingerprint identification system is developed by a. DRDO b. C-DAC c. CSIR d. None of above 26. World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) 2012 was held in a. Quebec b. Dubai c. Doha d. None of above
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