ASI wireless network links up all Agra monuments

Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. Agra is known to be the only city in the world with three world heritage monuments. But apart from these three monuments, there are over 50 lesser known monuments that are maintained and conserved by the Archaeological Survey of India by posting their staff on these monuments.

For long, ASI officials were feeling the need for a centralised setup for communicating with its staffer posted at various monuments of the city, including monuments like Fatehpur Sikri that are located even out of mobile coverage area.

Arriving on a solution to this problem, the ASI has now linked all the Agra monuments with a centralised wireless radio communication network that was formally tested at the Taj Mahal on Saturday, linking the ASI office at Fatehpur Sikri, about 30 km away from the city.

According to Superintending Archaeologist at Agra D Dayalan initially the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, Itmad-ud-Daullah and Sikandra have been connected with the wireless radio network that included a base station for interconnection and a few short-range walkie-talkies linked to this base station. He said that of late, it was being experienced that the telephones installed at various monuments were mostly out of order and mobiles were too costly to maintain for the department.

Besides, far-off monuments like Fatehpur Sikri were almost completely out of mobile coverage area making it very difficult for the ASI office at Agra to remain in constant touch with all the monuments under its jurisdiction.

With the installation of this wireless network, he said, the monuments would become permanently online and communicating between the monuments would become virtually free of cost. Besides, this move would also augment the security of the Taj Mahal, working in tendem with the Central Industrial Security Force.

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