Satellite being designed to connect villages: ISRO

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Satellite for village connectivity soon! ISRO is in the process of designing a satellite for providing village connectivity. ISRO have planned to use multiple spot beams for the satellite and is expected to be launched in another two and a half years time.  ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair was bestowed the K. R Narayanan Award, presented by K. R Narayanan Foundation here on Friday. He said there are around 600,000 villages in the country of which at least 50,000 have no connectivity. He also said that the use of technology could solve the problems faced by the people especially those living in villages and setting up of village resource centres (VRC) had provided benefits of space and other IT-enabled services directly to common man. Tele-education and telemedicine facilities were being provided by ISRO to the villages. Through the tele-education programmes, classrooms were being beamed to villages and teachers could interact and communicate with the students. Likewise, telemedicine delivered healthcare at the doorstep of remote villages. Apart from all these, the satellites could also be used for planning local activities in villages.

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