Sikkim: BSNL declares state as ‘Independent Telecom Circle’, to start functioning from tomorrow

GANGTOK: The Department of Telecom under Government of India through the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) today officially declared Sikkim as an independent telecom circle. The newly formed Sikkim Telecom Circle will start functioning from Gangtok w.e.f. 1st September, 2021.

Approval of the long pending request for an independent telecom circle will now allow the state to be able to control its own telecom policies, and implement telecom projects faster. It further hopes to allow increase in funding for the telecom sector in Sikkim resulting in wider network coverage.

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An official statement by BSNL read, “Approval of New authority is hereby convoyed towards emotion of separate and independent Sikkim Telecom Circle headed by a CGM level officer by bifurcation of unified West Bengal Telecom Circle.”

The state's telecom circle was earlier clubbed under the West Bengal Telecom Circle with its headquarters in Kolkata.

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