Tourists get wifi in Yana, Sahasralinga and other remote areas in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka

Keeping successful caput tourists visiting the historical, spiritual, and earthy attractions, including waterfalls, successful the distant forested regions of Uttara Kannada territory successful Karnataka, GNA India Private Limited has launched a wifi installation to illuminate the ‘blind spots’, oregon distant areas wherever web signals antecedently failed to reach.

In the archetypal phase, the Bengaluru-based company, successful collaboration with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Acer India, has introduced wifi connectivity successful Yana and Sahasralinga, 2 salient pilgrimage and tourer destinations successful Uttara Kannada district.

Yana is simply a fashionable tourer destination located successful the wood of the Katgal Range successful Uttara Kannada. Known arsenic 1 of the cleanest and wettest villages successful Karnataka, it is simply a earthy wonderment featuring 2 monolithic achromatic limestone stone formations — Bhairaveshwara Shikhara and Mohini Shikhara. Surrounded by dense wood and crystal-clear streams, Yana offers trekkers, pilgrims, and quality enthusiasts a mystical blend of escapade and spirituality. However, until recently, the deficiency of telephone connectivity had been a large situation for tourists.

Sahasralinga, different beatified site, is located astir 14 km from Sirsi successful Uttara Kannada district. The Sahasralingeśvara temple, situated connected the banks of the Shalmala river, is renowned for the beingness of a 1000 Shiva lingas carved connected the rocks successful the riverbed.

GNA has partnered with BSNL and Acer India to instal tiny towers and supply integer connectivity successful these distant areas.

Nagaraja Munidasappa, Managing Director of GNA India, told The Hindu, “We person successfully implemented wifi facilities successful the distant agrarian tourer areas of Yana and Sahasralinga. The inaugural has received an encouraging effect from people. Our volition is to grow this task crossed India successful the adjacent aboriginal successful collaboration with BSNL. This inaugural volition play a captious relation successful strengthening the Rural Smart Village Center Project.”

Acer India is supporting GNA by providing precocious computing hardware to complement the last-mile connectivity infrastructure.

Sathodi Falls, Magod Falls to get wifi

Mr. Munidasappa stated that the institution plans to found wifi facilities successful astatine slightest 10 distant tourer destinations, including Sathodi Falls and Magod Falls, successful Uttara Kannada district.

GNA is besides focusing connected enhancing integer connectivity successful hilly States, specified arsenic Meghalaya, successful northeast India.

The wifi task was launched successful Bengaluru connected February 26, successful the beingness of Dr. Vishal Rao, subordinate of the Consultative Group to the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Union Government, and erstwhile Union curate Ananth Kumar Hegde. A Japanese delegation led by industrialist Tadashi Izumi besides attended the event.

The inaugural aligns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginativeness of a digitally empowered India, and marks a decisive measurement toward transforming agrarian areas, and Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns, portion accelerating the instauration of astute villages crossed the country, Dr. Rao said.