Rail Tel Corporation of
India Ltd. (RAILTEL), a “Mini Ratna” PSU of Ministry of Railways, and one of
the leading telecom infrastructure providers in the country celebrated its 13th
Annual Day yesterday on 17th October 2013. Shri Arunendra Kumar, Chairman,
Railway Board, was the Chief Guest at the function while Shri Kul Bhushan,
Member Electrical, Railway Board, presided over the function. Shri R. K. Bahuguna,
Chairman & Managing Director, RAILTEL and Sr. officers from Railway Board
and RAILTEL were among those present on the occasion.
Speaking
on the occasion Shri Arunendra Kumar, Chairman Railway Board said that RailTel
has built nationwide Optical Fibre Cable
based broadband and multimedia network using Railway’s seamless right of way
with the objective of modernizing railways networks as well as enable the
growth of Telecom, Internet and IT enabled value added services in all parts of
the country. Shri Arunendra Kumar said that RailTel has created the state of
the art optical fibre infrastructure so as to deliver secure and reliable
connectivity to the industry, important government departments besides Indian
Railways. He said that RailTel has taken new strides in the area of overseas
telecom projects and now executing a project in Bhutan
and working upon similar projects in various other countries of central and
south Asia . RailTel is also playing a major
role in developing Telecom Networks of national interests like National
Knowledge Network, National optical Fiber Network etc., Shri Kumar added.
On this
occasion, Chairman Railway Board and other dignitaries also presented awards to
the 25 employees of RailTel for their excellent performance in different fields.
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