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Inability of the Department of Space (DOS) to realise its communication satellites and failure to utilise available satellite capacity led to competitive disadvantage to DoS visa-a-vis foreign satellite system, said the Comptroller & Auditor General of India in its audit report on management of Satellite Capacity for Direct-to-Home (DTH) services.
It said that DOS failed to provide satellite capacity (Ku band transporters) on domestic satellites as it was not able to realise communication satellites as planned during the eleventh five year Plan. “Out of the total 76 Ku band transponders used by Indian DTH operators (July 2013) only 19 transponders about 25 per cent belonged to Indian satellites. The remaining 57 transponders were on foreign satellites,” CAG said in its official statement.
It also said that foreign satellites gained by being ready at the opportune time to place their satellites in Indian skies for providing DTH services in India. “ Crowding of the foreign satellites over India and consequent increase in demand for the orbital slots would not only affect INSAT system, but would also result in non-availability of the strategically important slots for India,” CAG added in a statement.
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