Rajyavardhan Rathore flags off 9 new broadcast vans stressing on developing India stories especially from North East

New Delhi, September 11: With broadcasting reaching great heights with its intention to permit real-time news to its customers, the Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore on Monday flagged off nine new state-of-the-art broadcast vans, four of which are meant for the northeast areas Gangtok, Kohima, Imphal, and Agartala.

The Public Service Broadcaster Doordarshan (DNSG) inducted broadcasting vans to enable feasible broadcasting of the real-time news. Speaking on the occasion, Rajyavardhan Rathore said that the BJP Government stresses on Act East Policy and a lot of development efforts are taking place in North East India in this regard. Deployment of more DSNG vans in North East will help in making the development stories from North East reach the people.

These DSNG Units would enable Doordarshan to enhance its live telecast capability from the North-East as 4 of these DSNGs are meant for Gangtok, Kohima, Imphal, and Agartala. Since North-East is the focus area of the Government of India, these would provide a boost to the news gathering as well as programming initiatives from the hitherto uncovered areas in the North East. Apart from this, new DSNG units are also being deployed at Allahabad, Visakhapatnam, Chandigarh, Jagdalpur, and Pune

9 new C-Band DSNG vans have been inducted, which are capable of uplinking HD signals, as a part of the fleet augmentation programme to enhance the capacity of Doordarshan for live broadcasting. These vans have been procured at a cost of Rs.22.83 Cr (at Rs.2.54 Cr each) through a Global Tender.

Doordarshan has a fleet of 34 DSNGs which are deployed across the country. 16 of these DSNGs operate in C Band while 18 operate in Ku Band. However, out of 34 DSNGs, only 2 are capable of uplinking HD signals, at present. DSNGs are Mobile Earth Stations which enable broadcasting from any remote place through a satellite system.