GOVERNMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:6 ANSWERED ON:20.11.2000 NEW TELEPHONE EXCHANGES IN A.P SULTAN SALAHUDDIN OWAISI

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

(a) whether Andhra Pradesh telecom circle is planning to open about 200 new telephone exchanges in remote areas during 2000- 2001;

(b) if so, the details thereof, location-wise;

(c) whether A.P. telecom circle needs extra allotment of 2000 kms (1500 kms of 6F and 500 kms of 12F) fibre for the year 2000-2001;

(d) if so, whether A.P. Government have requested his Ministry to allot required cable on priority basis to AP Telecom circle; and

(e) if so, the action taken/proposed to be taken by the Government in this regard? Answer

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS (SHRI TAPAN SIKDAR)

(a) & (b): Yes, Sir. It is planned to open 300 new telephone exchanges in the rural/remote areas of Andhra Pradesh Telecom. Circle during 2000-2001. Location-wise details of 82 exchanges commissioned from 1.4.2000 to 15.11.2000 are given in Annexure-I and the details of 218 exchanges planned to be commissioned during the remaining period of the year 2000-2001 are given in Annexure- II.

(c) to (e):Yes, Sir. Additional 2000 kms optical fibre cable (6F=1500 kms, 12F=500 kms) has been allotted to A. P. Telecom. Circle. Efforts are being made to procure the required material.

ANNEXURE-I

NEW EXCHANGES COMMISSIONED IN RURAL AREAS OF A. P. STATE (FROM 1.4.2000 TO 15.11.2000)

SL.NO. NAME OF THE DISTRICT SL.NO. NAME OF THE EXCHANGE

1. ADILABAD 1 DAHEGAON

2. 2 DEVAPUR(T)

3. 3 LALTEKDI

4. ANANTAPUR 1 PENNANAGAR

5. CHITTOOR 1 EEDIGAPALLI 6. CUDDAPAH 1 ANKALAMMAGUDURU

7 GUNTUR 1 CHILUVURU

8. 2 MUTLURU

9. 3 PANIDEM 10. 4 TYALLUR-75 11. 5 ULLIPALEM 12. 1 ALLIPUR 13. 2 ERDANDI 14. 3 15. 4 KAMALPUR 16. 5 KATKUR 17. 6 HANUMAJIPETA 18. 7 PEDDALINGAPUR 19. 8 POLASA 20. 9 PAIDIMADUGU 21. 10 SAMUDRALA 22. 11 VENKATARAOPALLI 23. 12 UPPAL 24. KHAMMAM 1 BANDIREVU 25. KRISHNA 1 UPPULURU 26. KURNOOL 1 CHINTALAYAPALLI 27. 2 CHITYALA 28. 3 EDURUR 29. 4 KADUMURU 30. 5 LAKSHMIPURAM 31. 6 MADHAVARAM 32. 7 PARUMANCHALA 33. MAHABUBNAGAR 1 BALUEPALLI 34. 2 BURUGULA 35. 3 GUNDUR 36. 4 ITIKYAL 37. 5 KARKALPAHAD 38. 6 MANAGANUR 39. 7 MULOHERA 40. 8 NARVA 41. MEDAK 1 CHITTAPUR 42. 2 MAHENDRA & MAHENDRA 43. 3 NACHARAMGUTTA 44. 4 NARSINGI 45. 5 PATHOOR 46. 6 SHIVAMPET 47. NALGONDA 1 ALAGADAPA 48. 2 ENNARAM 49. 3 KANAGAL 50. 4 KAPUGALLU 51. 5 KUNILAGUDEM 52. 6 MARIYALA 53. 7 MOTAKONDURU 54. 8 PEDDAMUNAGALA 55. 9 PILLAIPALLY 56. 10 SIVANNAGUDEM 57. 11 TIRUMALAGIRI 58. 12 T. K. PAHAD 59. 13 VEMULAKONDA 60. NELLORE 1 AMENCHERLA 61. 2 DORAVARISATRAM 62. 3 RUDRAKOTA 63. NIZAMABAD 1 BADABHEEMGAL 64. 2 GANNARAM 65. 3 GUNDANEMALY 66. 4 MENDORA 67. 5 NAGAMPETA 68. 6 NALESWAR 69. 7 70. PRAKASAM 1 KALLURU 71. 2 KAMEPALLI 72. 3 POIHAVARAM 73. 4 SANIKAVARAM 74. RANGAREDDY 1 BORAMPETA 75. 2 THUMKUNTA 76. SRIKAULAM 1 PEDDASEEDI 77. WARANGAL 1 BALAPALA 78. 2 GAVICHERLA 79. 3 GIRNIBAVI 80. 4 KOMARAVELLI 81. 5 NADIKUDA 82. 6 YELLAPUR

ANNEXURE-II

NEW EXCHANGES PROPOSED TO BE COMMISSIONED IN RURAL AREAS OF A.P. DURING 2000-2001

(FROM 16.11.2000 TO 31.03.2001)

ADILABAD 1 ACHALAPUR 2 BHIMINI 3 DHANORA(B) 4 KOTAPALLI 5 LONVELLY 6 MADDIPADAGA 7 NARAYANAPUR 8 PATHABELLAMPALLI 9 RAMTEK 10 TALLAGURAJALA ANANTAPUR 1 BRAHMASAMUDRAM 2 CHEEMALAVAGUPALLI 3 JANTHULURU 4 MURUTLA-II 5 MUTHAVAKUNTA 6 NARAYANAPURAM 7 NYAMADDALA 8 RAVULA CHERUVU 9 SEETHARAMNAGAR 10 TAGARAKUNTA CHITTOOR 1 APPINEPALLE 2 BANDAMEEDAKAMMAPALLI 3 K.C.PALLI 4 MALLANUR 5 MUNGILIPALLU 6 NELLEPALLI 7 PAPIREDDIGARIPALLI 8 TURKAPALLI CUDDAPAH 1 BOMMEPALLI 2 DAYANKHANPALLI 3 DEVAPATLA 4 ETURU 5 GUNDLAKUNTA 6 KOGATAM 7 MUKKAVARIPALLI 8 MURARICHINTHALA 9 NAGAVARAM 10 NAGULAGUTTAPALLY 11 PVG PALLI 12 PANDILLAPALLI 13 SREERAMULAPETA 14 THALLAPALLI 15 URUTURU 16 VEERANNAGATTUPALLI EAST GODAVARI 1 A.V. NAGARAM 2 ANURU 3 DEVAGUPTAM 4 DONKARAI 5 J. ANNAVARAM 6 KUNAVARAM 7 N. KOTHAPALLI GUNTUR 1 DAIDA 2 ENUGUPALEM 3 GOVADA 4 JAMMULAPALEM 5 KANUPARRU 6 MADUGULA 7 MUTHYALAMPADU 8 PANDITIVARIPALEM 9 PULIPADU 10 RAJUKALVA 11 RAVELA 12 SIRIGIRIPADU 13 SIRIPURAM 14 TALLAPALLI 15 VEERAPURAM KARIMNAGAR 1 BHEEMRAOPET 2 KISTAMPETA 3 KOTHAKONDA 4 LAXMANAPALLI 5 LINGANNAPETA 6 NAGAMPETA 7 PATHIPAKA KHAMMAM 1 GUBBAGURTHY 2 JAMALAPURAM 3 JANAKIPURAM 4 K.G.SIRIPURAM 5 MODDULAGUDEM 6 NAGARAM 7 PALAIR 8 PERURU 9 PUSUGUDEM 10 UPPERRU KRISHNA 1 ACHAMPALEM 2 KONDANGI 3 KONDAPAVULURU 4 PANDIRIPALLIGUDEM 5 VYVAKA KURNOOL 1 BANAVASI 2 BUDURU 3 CHINA THUMBALAM 4 DAIVAMDINNE 5 DEVARABANDA 6 DUDEKONDA 7 DUDYALA 8 GUNDAKONDA 9 H.MURAVANI 10 KOTAKONDA 11 LAKASAGARAM 12 MAYALUR 13 MULUGUNDAM 14 NANDAVARAM 15 PESALABANDA 16 REMATA 17 SANKALAPURAM 18 TERNEKALLU 19 VEMUGODU MAHABUBNAGAR 1 AKUTHOTPALLI 2 ALERU 3 AMMAPUR 4 BALAMPET 5 BORAVELLY 6 EDIRA 7 GAJULAPETA 8 GANGARAM 9 GORLAPADU 10 GUDABALLUR 11 GUMMADAM 12 HAKIMPET 13 HASNABAD 14 IPPALAPALLI 15 KARUKONDA 16 KODAIR 17 MANNANUR 18 MEDIPUR 19 NAGAPUR 20 PONNAKAL 21 SOLIPUR MEDAK 1 AKSAMPALLY 2 BODUPATLA 3 KUKUNURPALLI 4 MARVELLY 5 MULUGU 6 PEDDAPUR 7 SULTHANPUR 8 TEEGULA 9 TIMMAPUR 10 VENKATARAOPET NALGONDA 1 BOLLEPALLI 2 CHERUKUPALLY THUNGATHURTHY 3 CHINNAMADHARAM 4 MOTHEY 5 NELLIKAL 6 PALADUGU NELLORE 1 CHATAGATLA 2 CHILAKAMARRI 3 CHILAMANCHENU 4 CHINTALATMAKUR 5 CHITTIEDU 6 ESWARAWAKA 7 GUNDAMADAKLA 8 HASNAPURAM 9 KOMMI 10 MOMUDURU 11 POOLATHOTA 12 VALLIVEDU 13 VANAMTHOPU NIZAMABAD 1 ARGUL 2 CHILLAGIRI 3 CHOUTUPALLI 4 GOVINDAPET 5 PIPRI 6 RYTHUNAGAR 7 TANDOOR 8 THALLARAMPURAM 9 UTNOOR 10 YERRAGATLA PRAKASHAM 1 ADUSUMILLI 2 BESTAVARIPETA 3 BOTLAGUDUR 4 BOTLAPALEM 5 DADDAVADA 6 KOLALAPUDI 7 MARRIPUDI 8 MOHIDDINPURAM 9 MOKSHAGUNDAM 10 PEDDAGANJAM 11 RAJUPALEM 12 RUDRAVARAM RANGAREDDY 1 ALIABAD 2 BODAKONDA 3 GANDEED 4 VENNACHEDU SRIKAKULAM 1 DEVANULTHADA 2 G.SEETHARAMAPURAM 3 PATHARLAPALLI VISAKHAPATNAM 1 CHUCHUKONDA 2 GITAM Engineering Coll, Com 3 KODURU 4 PALAVALASA 5 SONTYAM VIZIANAGARAM 1 BAGUVALASA 2 BANDALUPPI 3 GARUGUBILLI 4 GUDIVADA 5 PEDDAMAJJIPALEM WARANGAL 1 ANNARAMSHAREEF 2 BOLLIKUNTA 3 CHINNAMUPPARAM 4 CHINTANEKKONDA 5 DUGGONDI 6 KATERPALLI 7 KHANAPURAM 8 KOTHAGUDA 9 MALLAMPALLY 10 MONDRAI 11 MUPPARAM 12 13 NAGAPURI 14 NAGARAM 15 PEMBARTHY 16 REGONDA 17 TARIGOPPALA WEST GODAVARI 1 AYYAPPARAJUGUDEM 2 KALLA 3 NARASANNAPALEM 4 PAMULAVARIGUDEM 5 SINGARAJUPALEM