AGARTALA, Jan 2 (TIWN): Days are not so far when the woe of the common man regarding poor condition of Internet is likely to meet an end. Talking to TIWN, DGM (CFA) U.C. Bhowmick said that the optical fibre laying work is already completed and is just waiting for the response from the higher authority regarding the inauguration ceremony of the internet Bandwidth. He further said that although they have not yet received any notice regarding the inauguration but mostly it will be held in the second week of January. The much awaited dream of Tripura to emerge as the third internet gateway after Mumbai and Chennai is not far away as BSNL DGM (CFA) U C Bhowmick said that the formal inauguration of the internet bandwidth is likely to be held in the mid of January 2016. DGM (CFA) U.C. Bhowmick also said that work is complete and all the equipments have reached Agartala and is ready for the inauguration. Once the internet bandwidth is inaugurated, Agartala, Tripura's capital city, would be the third international internet gateway in India after Mumbai and Chennai. 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. India has purchasing this surplus unused bandwidth from Bangladesh to develop the IT industry in Northeast.

The most important work like laying optical fibre is completed and the rest of the other additional work is underway. He also clarified that the other additional work will not pose any obstruction to the construction work.

With the inaugurations of the internet bandwidth project the internet service will be upgraded to a extreme level.

India and Bangladesh signed pact on sharing Internet bandwidth as a result of which the submarine cable providing Net to Bangladesh will travel to Agartala from Cox's Bazar via Brahmanbaria. 

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.

At this century high speed internet facility is must for the development of the state and it seems that once the internet bandwidth is inaugurated it will boost the economy of the state as well as provide faster internet connectivity.