Indian Telecom History

INDIAN TELECOM HISTORY VOLUME - 1

By TELECOM INDIA DAILY

This presentation covers long journey of Indian Telecom. We have tried our best to include major changes occurred, reforms made and important dates.

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BEGINNING
• 1851: The sprawling Posts and Telegraphs Department, for instance, occupied a small corner of the public works department, in. • Dr. William O’Shaughnessy pioneered telegraph and telephone in India belonged to the Public Works Department.

• 1854 :A regular, separate department was opened, when telegraph facilities were thrown open to the public.

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Historical Changes
• 1854-57 : The Telegraph Department comprised a Superintendent of Telegraphs.

• Three Deputy Superintendents at Bombay, Madras and Pegu in Burma, Inspectors at Indore, Agra, Kanpur and Banaras and an operating and maintenance staff . • This was the basic structure.

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Historical Changes
• Dr. O'Shaughnessy was the first Superintendent of Electric Telegraphs in India and later became the first Director General.

• Indo-European Telegraph Department, later known as the Overseas Communications, was administered by a Director-in-Chief whose headquarters was in London. • 15th February, 1888 : merged with the Director-General of the Indian Telegraph Department.

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Historical Changes
• 1914 : World War I, Postal Department and the Telegraph Department were amalgamated under a single Director-General. • April, 1925 : The accounts of the Indian Posts and Telegraphs were reconstituted to examine the true fiscal profile of the department. • The attempt was to find out the extent to which the department was imposing a burden on the taxpayers.

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Historical Changes
• 1st April, 1950 : In 1950 the number of Telephone Exchanges absorbed from princely states was... [continues]

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