Goa, 1st February 2019: Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 announced Kirat Communications as winner in “Digital India” category for their innovation “Connecting every WiFi with Solar Solution”. Kirat Communication has been applauded as winner at the 9th edition of Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 hosted by Government of Goa at Entertainment Society of Goa, Panaji.

“I am extremely thankful to Aegis Graham Bell Awards as well as all the Jury Members who have selected Kirat Communications as the winner in “Digital India” category. I am also very happy to be a part of the Graham Bell initiative which provides a platform to showcase our work and promoting our innovations. It is my hope that this will encourage us to put our efforts more towards the digital development of our society and provide them with affordable solutions for better socio-economic development. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to our mentor Prof Abhay Karandikar, Director, IIT Kanpur and all the team with whom support we have achieved this goal” said by Jaspreet Singh, Founder and Director of Kirat Communications.

“We are delighted to honor Kirat Communications, less than year old organization with Aegis Graham Bell Award which will motivate them to come up with more innovations and inspire other startups too” commented Dr Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Jury, Aegis Graham Bell Awards; Dean, Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security & Telecom.

Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) has been promoting innovations in the ICT domain. AGBA has been rewarding those who have been contributing in these fields, for 8 years with a vision to foster and stimulate innovators for India to become the nucleus of innovations.

About Kirat Communication:

Kirat Communications (OPC) Private Limited is an initiative to bring the fast and real time connectivity to the unserved regions of India. It is an IIT Bombay offshoot which has strength in providing the affordable internet solutions for rural areas and help them in educating the use cases of Internet. Our vision is to bring Connectivity to each and every part of India. We are aligning our vision along with the Prime Minister’s initiative of Digital India. Our main aim is to bring the Digital Gap between the Rural and Urban areas. Providing Internet is a prior requirement, educating them with the use of services like e-health, e-governance & e-education etc. is our post initiative. We are a technology company having expertise in the field of developing affordable wireless solutions for the internet connectivity. We also provide the solutions which helps the telecom operator to overcome some of the most challenging problems like cost optimization, Data Acquisition System (calculate the number of Battery, Diesel and Electricity Grid hours), We are also expertise in Network Planning for radio links and Network Deployment, Wi-Fi Hotspots etc. Developed an automated tool in which the difficult challenges like Feasibility check using terrain, tower availability, distance, frequency used can be done automated without spending so much of time. The most expensive job like site survey can automatically be managed by our tool. This roll out will enable the fast deployment to the rural areas and bring socio-economic changes and generate employment for the Village Level Entrepreneur.

About us:

Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovations in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The award is powered by mUni Campus. It is organised with the support of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) India, a public-private partnership initiative of DoT with 08 Centres at premier academic institutes (06 IITs, IISc and IIMA) of the country, each supported by a Telecom Service Provider and Convergence India and KPMG as knowledge partner. For more information, please visit: www.bellaward.com

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Shweta Chavan | Corporate Communication | Aegis Graham Bell Awards | 8433969263 | shweta@bellaward.com