AGARTALA, Dec 28 (TIWN): Finally the much awaited dream of third Internet Gateway at Tripura scheduled to be inaugurated in January, 2016, confirmed by BSNL DGM (CFA) U.C Bhowmik. Talking to TIWN correspondent, BSNL DGM (CFA) U.C Bhowmik said that with an aim to meet the deadline by January the work for the Internet Bandwidth is underway in full swing. Besides, he also mentioned that the work is likely to get complete by January. Mentioning about the date of the formal inauguration of the Internet Bandwidth, Bhowmik said that the department will announce the date after they receive a letter from the New Delhi. He further said that the heavy machineries and equipments are already catered to state via Guwahati from abroad and work is underway.The much waited project of Internet Bandwidth from Bangladesh’s submarine cable for the upgradation of the internet services of the State seems to get connected in few days as the authority is busy in laying the submarine cable line up to Aukhaura. Once the internet bandwidth is inaugurated, Agartala, Tripura's capital city, would be the third international internet gateway in India after Mumbai and Chennai. However, with the inauguration of the Internet Bandwidth the prolonged problems faced by the common mass of the State are likely to get over.

On the historic day of June 2015 India-Bangladesh surplus under-sea internet bandwidth (10 Gbps) sale agreement was signed during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s at  Dhaka in presence of Hon. Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina. And accordingly Bangladesh has  also agreed to sell off its unused submarine Internet bandwidth to India's state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for $ 1.2 million (Rs 7.7 crores) a year.

The agreement is initially signed for four years and India will gain 10 Gbps (gigabits per second) bandwidth in the first year with a provision for this to go up to 40 Gbps per second in the subsequent years.

Union Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad laid the foundation stone for the international internet gateway through Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

However, this will also benefit the North-east states to overcome the problems of the internet service.