Chennai, Dec. 6 -- Space Industry Association of India (SIA-India) SIA-India has called for the launch of a National Satellite Connectivity Mission (NSCM) to ensure uninterrupted digital governance and public service continuity in about 40,000 Gram Panchayats where terrestrial links repeatedly fail due to topographical challenges, multi-week outage cycles, and chronic disaster exposure.
These are not lagging-rollout zones but permanently connectivity-fragile geographies across the Himalayas, North-East hilly belts, Nicobar island chain, LWE corridors, desert interiors and cyclone-recurrence coastlines, SIA-India said.
According to the industry body, satellite backhaul at Gram Panchayat is critical for enabling terrestrial Wi-Fi/4G network...