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Friday, July 17, 2015

LTE Stories in Africa & Indonesia Suggest Reliance Jio’s Success in Data-Starved India

Reliance Jio is all ready with guns and bullets as the commercial operations will go live by December this year. While everyone concerned believe that Jio will disrupt the market causing existing players to bleed, let’s take a look at how Jio’s data- only model can work in India.

Though Jio has been in the limelight of technology media from the very first, we were actually given information by Jio only as much as they wanted us to know. Still there is no update about Jio’s voice policy – is it VOLTE or VoIP or a fall back to Reliance Communications’ 2G network?

Jio wants to be more than just a data service provider; rather they have pushed their fiber plan to reach millions of Indians’ homes. They have laid some, borrowed from others and have become a part of international submarine cable (Bay of Bengal Gateway).

Without voice or being a ‘dumb pipe’ model is nothing new. Rather, before LTE went mainstream, there were some WIMAX players who relied upon data- only model. Some succeeded, some did not – but everyone moved to LTE eventually.

Let us take a look at how LTE has changed the scenario in Africa and Indonesia.

In Africa, there has been a recent surge in telecom investment, and a lot is coming in the form of LTE deployment. There are several players who earlier rolled out WiMAX, and are now offering LTE.


A List of Africa’s data- only LTE operators:

Monday, July 13, 2015

List of Government Medical Colleges in West Bengal

This is the list of Govt. Medical Colleges in WB, affiliated by WB University of Health Sciences (WBUHS). 

They all offer MBBS courses, not sure about nursing courses, medical technology courses or post MBBS PG/diploma courses. MBBS admissions are based on NEET-UG ranks and counselling. 


Medical College, Kolkata 1835

N.R.S. Medical College and Hospital 1873

R.G.Kar Medical College and Hospital 1886

Calcutta National Medical College 1948

IPGMER and SSKM Hospital 1707

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Burdwan Medical College 1910

Bankura Sammelani Medical College 1922

North Bengal Medical College 1968

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Medinipur Medical College 2004

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College of Medicine and JNM Hospital 2010

College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital 2011

Malda Medical College 2011

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Raiganj Government Medical College and Hospital 2018

Rampurhat Government Medical College 2018

Diamond Harbour Government Medical College 2019

Maharaja Jitendra Narayan Medical College (Coochbihar) 2019

Deben Mahata Government Medical College (or Purulia Govt. Medical College) 2020

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Announced Medical Colleges: 

Prafulla Chandra Sen Govt. Medical College (Arambagh), 2022

Tamralipto Govt. Medical College (Tamluk) 2022

Barasat Govt. Medical College 2022

Jhargram Govt. Medical College 2022

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Govt. Medical College (Uluberia) 2022

Jalpaiguri Govt. Medical College 2022



Total 23 government medical colleges in West Bengal. 

The post has been updated on 12.07.2022