Issued by India

Issued on Apr 22, 2017

Issued for : Department of Posts is pleased to issue a Commemorative Postage Stamp on the occasion of completion of 75 years of Bharat Ratna Bhimrao Ambedkar Institute of Telecom Training (BRBRAITT).

Credits :
Stamps/Miniature Sheet/FDC/Brochure/Cancellation Cachet : Smt. Alka Sharma

Type : Miniature Sheet, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi Colour

Denomination : 1500 Paise

Stamps Printed : 301590

Miniature Sheet Printed : 0.1 million

Printing Process : Wet Offset

Printer : Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

About : 

• Bharat Ratna Bhimrao Ambedkar Institute of Telecom Training (BRBRAITT) is a premier level institute of Telecom Training in Asia. This training institute was previously known as “Telecom Training Centre” and its name was changed to “Bharat Ratna Bhimrao Ambedkar Institute of Telecom Training (BRBRAITT)” on 30-05-1992 in the honour of Bharat Ratna Bhimrao Ambedkar. This training centre had its origin at Calcutta where it initially started functioning in the 1920. During the Second World War, it was shifted to Jabalpur, where it commenced activities from April 22, 1942.
• The training centre has achieved many milestones of progress in a period of 75 years. All the senior officers of BSNL / Department of Telecommunication have had their initial training in this institute. It is an apex training Institute of BSNL and is an ISO 9001:2008 accredited Institute.
• The Training Centre has a campus of 35 acres with administrative building of 17,280 square meters in area. It has also got 236 staff quarters and four hostels with a capacity to accommodate about 400 trainees. Institute imparts training on various technologies to different organisations. There are high tech class rooms for lecture sessions fully equipped with all latest media support facilities. BRBRAITT has state of the art laboratories equipped with latest equipment worth crores of rupees to provide hands on experience to participants. Some of the main laboratories are Computers and Data communication Labs, Mobile Communication Labs, New Technology Switching Labs, Optical Fibre Cables, Measuring Instruments and Systems, Satellite.
• BRBRAITT library has a huge collection of books (both for technical and general reading), periodicals & magazines and departmental publications. A separate reading room is being maintained for technical journals where magazines are displayed. An Audio/Video Section for trainees and staff is also maintained. They can see and listen to management & technical video/audio cassettes in this section of library.
• Strength of BRBRAITT is its highly KNOWLEDGEABLE and EXPERIENCED Human Resource i.e. the Faculty Members. BRBRAITT is having a pool of Experts in various fields like Wireless Communication, Next Generation Networks, Data communication and Computer Networking, Programming Languages, Transmission Technologies, Administration and Management etc. Due to highly talented Man Power and Excellent Lab resources, BRBRAITT is able to offer courses not only for the Indian organisations but also for the Foreign Organisations.
• The institute provides training mainly to its own personnel. However, recently institute has opened the doors for outside agencies – Organisations – both government and private, College students – for their Summer Internship, Vocational Trainings, Projects and anyone who is keen to learn about the latest telecommunication technologies.
• BRBRAITT is imparting training to officers of BSNL/DoT and to other Government and Private Organisations. Trainees from organisations like Railways, Defence, MP Electricity Board, Vihaan Networks, Department of Posts, IIITDM Jabalpur, IIIT Allahabad, Infosys etc. have taken training in the institute. BRBRAITT is imparting various Skill Development programs for the youth of India. BRBRAITT is the Nodal Centre for implementation of Skill Development across all the training centres of BSNL.
• BRBRAITT has taken up the task of training of telecom personnel from foreign countries. These trainees are mainly from APT (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity) Countries. Other than APT, BRBRAITT has imparted training to the participants of Bhutan Telecom & Sri Lanka Telecom. BRBRAITT is also conducting need based trainings for the member countries of Commonwealth Telecom Organisation (CTO) HQ London on regular basis.
• BRBRAITT has the expertise and professionalism to face the ever changing challenges emerging in the field of training. Dedicated terms of professionals are trained to think out-of-the-box and innovate. Past 75 years of contribution of BRBRAITT is commendable and inspiration for making contribution in future also to equip the generation with latest technologies in the field of telecom and IT.
• Text : Based on the material received from proponent.

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Issued by India

Issued on Jan 28, 1982

Issued for : Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department is privileged to issue a special postage stamp to commemorate the 100 years of telephone services in the country.

Description of Designs : The stamp and first day cover were designed by C.R. Pakrashi and the first day cancellation by Charanjit Lal.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Colour : Multicolour

Denomination : 200 Paise

Overall size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms.

Printing size : 3.55 X 2.54 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper

Number printed : 20,00,000

Number per issue sheet : 35

Printing process : Photogravure

Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• Within six years of the invention of the Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, the telephone bells started jingling in India. The Oriental Telephone and Electric Company Ltd., a London based firm, was granted licence by the then Governor-General to set up telephone exchanges at Bombay, Calcutta and Madras in November 1881. The telephone exchanges formally started functioning at these places on 28 January 1882.
• It was a truly humble beginning for the telephones with barely two dozen subscribers at Madras and a somewhat higher number of 90 and 102 at Bombay and Calcutta respectively. The telephones had a rough weather in view of opposition from commercial establishments. As late as in 1900 there appeared an advertisement in a leading newspaper of Madras “Take a telephone on concession. We will be happy to demonstrate the working of a telephone to anyone who calls on us.” What a different story it had been with the Company having to literally peddle telephones!
• In 1923, the Oriental Telephone & Electric Company set up three different companies – The Madras Telephone Company, The Bombay Telephone Company and The Bengal Telephone Corporation to cater to a larger clientele. By that time, as per the available reports, Madras had 1224 telephone connections, whereas Bombay and Calcutta had nearly 6,000 and 9,000 subscribers. At present, Madras has 19 Telephone Exchanges with 1.21 lakh telephones, Bombay has 43 Exchanges with 4.58 lakh telephones and Calcutta has 45 exchanges with 2.59 lakh telephones. Since Independence, India has made special efforts to indigenously manufacture telephone instruments, their accessories and other materials for telecommunication services. The Indian Telephone Industries was established at Bangalore as a public undertaking in 1948. Since then great strides have been taken in the expansion of telecommunication facilities in the country.
• Special attention is being paid to the establishment of long distance communications. Several multi-channel coaxial and microwave systems have been commissioned, making available large blocks of high grade trunk circuits and telephone facilities all over the country. The major cities in the country have been connected through Subscriber Trunk Dialling system. Over 272 cities are now on the national STD network. International subscriber dialling service has also been introduced on a limited scale to start with. Full advantage is being taken of the communication satellite and of our own Satellite Earth Stations. At the time of Independence we had only about 1.1 lakh telephones in the country; the number has exceeded 29 lakhs by 1981. Starting with the metropolitan cities, telecommunication service have spread far and wide and they are now serving the people in all the nooks and corners of the country.

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Issued by Japan

Issued on Mar 14, 1979

Issued for : To commemorate the total automation of telephones in Japan, a postage stamp was issued. The automation of telephones was set on foot in 1926 from the Kyobashi branch of Tokyo Central Telephone Office and gradually enlarged with final completion of national network on March 14^th, 1979.

Design : Telephone dials

Designer : Mr. Minoru Hisano

Colour : Multicolour

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 50 Yen

Perforation : 13

Printing Process : Photogravure

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Issued by India

Issued on Mar 10, 1976

Issued for : The Indian P&T Department deems it a great privilege to bring out a commemorative stamp in honour of this great man whose epoch-making invention has revolutionised the world of communications.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Black and Yellow

Denomination : 25 Paise

Overall size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms.

Printing size : 3.56 X 2.54 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Watermark : Unwatermarked Paper

Number printed : 30,00,000

Number per issue sheet : 35

Printing process : Photogravure

Designed and printed at : India Security Press

Name : Alexander Graham Bell

Born on Mar 3, 1847 at Edinburgh, Scotland

Died on Aug 2, 1922 at Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia, Canada

About : 

• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the Telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. He was educated at Edinburgh and London Universities. Son and grandson of teachers of speech, Graham Bell was from his childhood fascinated by experiments in speech conducted by his grandfather and the lessons which his father gave. Because of ill health, he moved with his father to Canada in 1870. In 1872 Graham Bell opened a School in Boston for training teachers of the deaf and also gave instructions in the mechanics of speech. The following year he became Professor of Vocal Physiology in Boston University.
• While working to devise a Multiple Telegraph, the thought of reproducing speech over distances constantly stirred his mind. On June 2, 1875, while working in Boston on Multiple Telegraph apparatus, Bell heard over an electric wire a sound corresponding to the twang of a steel spring at the other end. Recognising this as a manifestation of the undulatory current principle, he gave his assistant Thomas A. Watson, instructions for embodying it in a model of a telephone. This apparatus transmitted speech sounds the next day, June 3. Further experiments produced an instrument which on March 10, 1876, transmitted the first complete sentence: “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you“. This was the beginning of the telephone, the day of its invention.
• The telephone was first shown publicly at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. There the telephone attracted attention amidst its formidable rivals such as the first electric light and the first printed telegraph. Bell went to England and further perfected the two-piece device into a single instrument containing the transmitter and the receiver. Incredibly, the London Times described it as an American humbug. All the same, the first telephone exchange in England was established in London in September, 1876.
• Bell and Watson lived to inaugurate the first transcontinental telephone between Washington and San Francisco in 1915. Bell was the founder of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf and of the Volta Bureau for increasing knowledge relating to deafness. He was for a time President of the National Geographic Society and was appointed a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1898.
• The great pioneer and inventor died on August 2, 1922 at his summer home near Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada. A fitting tribute was paid to him when all the telephone stations on the Bell Telephone network in U.S.A. and Canada remained silent for one minute on the day of the funeral.

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Issued by India

Issued on Jan 21, 1970

Issued for : India is proud to play host to this Assembly which is meeting for the first time in Asia. The P.&T. Department is equally happy to issue a special postage stamp to commemorate this eventful occasion. The stamp depicts symbolically inter-linking of the world community through radio and telecommunications.

Description of Design : The stamp design is horizontal. A television set with the Antenna and a telephone receiver has been depicted in the faint back ground of a half global top in white lines.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Gravure Blue Grey 

Denomination : 20 Paise

Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms.

Printing Size : 3.56 X 2.54 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Watermark : Printed on unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper

Number Printed : 30,00,000

Number per issue Sheet : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• The XII^th Plenary Assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) meets in New Delhi on 21^st January, 1970 to study technical and operating questions relating specifically to radio communication and to issue recommendations on them. The CCIR Plenary Assembly meets once in about every 3 years.
• The CCIR which was established in 1927 is one of the permanent organs of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) which investigates and advises the ITU on technical and operation matters connected with radio, including new problems of space communication.
• The CCIR provides agreed technical criteria upon which international radio discussions and agreements can be based. It also decides the technical characteristics to be recommended for equipment and systems used in international radio communication. This work is carried out through a number of study groups which cover diverse subjects like radio transmitters and receivers, sound and television broadcasting, radio propagation, international radio monitoring, satellite communication, maritime and aeromobile radio systems, etc.
• The International Telecommunication Union with its headquarters at Geneva has the distinction of being the oldest International Organisation. It functions now as a specialised agency of the United Nations with the object of, maintaining and extending international co-operation for the improvement and rational use of telecommunications of all kinds. At present, 137 countries are members of the ITU. A member of the Union, ever since 1869, India has been actively associated with it over the last hundred years. Particularly after Independence, she has made significant contribution as an elective member of the Council and a nominee in a number of study groups. It is natural that India sets great store on the fascinating prospect of the countries of the world getting linked up in international telecommunication network through a world-wide communication system. The holding of this Plenary Assembly of the CCIR this year in India is an important event in the field of radio communication in this country.

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