{"id":120819,"date":"2021-08-19T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=120819"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:52:28","slug":"agreement-between-usof-bsnl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/agreement-between-usof-bsnl\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement between USOF &amp; BSNL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : USOF(Universal Service Obligation Fund) has recently signed an agreement with BSNL for high speed internet access to North Eastern States. Accordingly, which of the following statement is correct ?<br>Statements &#8212;<br>1 Agreement has been signed on August 18, 2021.<br>2 The Indian Telegraph(Amendment) Act, 2003 giving statutory status to the USOF<br>3 Agreement has been signed forfor hiring of 10 Gbps International Bandwidth for Internet Connectivity to Agartala<br><\/strong>a. Only 1.<br>b. Only 2.<br>c. Only 3.<br>d. All of the above<br><strong>Ans. d.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>USOF(Universal Service Obligation Fund) has recently signed an agreement with BSNL for high speed internet access to North Eastern States.<\/li><li><strong>Key points &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Agreement has been signed on August 18, 2021.<br>2 The Indian Telegraph(Amendment) Act, 2003 giving statutory status to the USOF<br>3 Agreement has been signed forfor hiring of 10 Gbps International Bandwidth for Internet Connectivity to Agartala from Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL), Bangladesh via Cox Bazar\/Kuakata.<br>4 Under the Agreement,USOF will provide financial support to BSNL for a period of three years for hiring the aforesaid International Bandwidth.<br>5 The availability of high speed internet access will help the citizens in accessing various e-services such as e-governance, e-education, e-health, e-commerce, e-banking, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1747050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1747050<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : USOF(Universal Service Obligation Fund) has recently signed an agreement with BSNL for high speed internet access to North Eastern States. Accordingly, which of the following statement is correct ?Statements &#8212;1 Agreement has been signed on August 18, 2021.2 The Indian Telegraph(Amendment) Act, 2003 giving statutory status to the USOF3 Agreement has been signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":120820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1151],"tags":[2346],"class_list":["post-120819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tta","tag-treaty-agreements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120821,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120819\/revisions\/120821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}