Itanagar, July 29: Arunachal Chief Secretary today stressed on the urgent need to improve the digital communication of the State especially in the remote villages of the state. The state has decided to commission 566 base transceiver stations (BTS)  in different universal service obligation fund (USOF) BTS locations of the state by April next year.
BTS is a fixed radio receiver in any mobile network. It sends and receives radio signals to mobile devices and converts them to digital signals that it passes on the network. The USOF central scheme envisages providing mobile coverage to 2,374 uncovered villages, including 1,683 in Arunachal Pradesh and 691 in two districts of Assam.
Chief Secretary Dharmendra was speaking at the 2nd State Level Broadband Committee (SBC) meeting on National Broadband Mission and Bharat Net  at Civil Secretariat, today.
The chief secretary told that in order to improve the digital connectivity in the area, the state government is committed to extend all possible support to the telecom service providers.
He also told the telecom service providers to work in close coordination with the Deputy Commissioners of the districts and solve the issues related to site acquisition, power supply and others that may arise during the course of commissioning of the project.
Commissioner PWD Kaling Tayeng, Secretary Power A.K. Bisht, Secretary IT  Anirudh Singh, Souvick Kr. Das DoT, GOI (Arunachal Pradesh), General Manager BSNL Arung Siram, General Manager BBNL Dilip Chiram among others were present in the meeting.

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