JNU students will soon be able to discuss their thesis; synopsis and debate on international and national topics over phone round O’clock at the rate of a cup of coffee. Government has initiated a process in this regard. MTNL and JNU have signed an MOU in this regard on Friday.

According to the MOU MTNL will be preferred telecom service provider in the university. The MOU was signed in the presence of Sachin Pilot, Minister of state for Communications and Information Technology and Prof. B.B. Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor, JNU. According to Pilot students will have to pay only Rs.199 in place of Rs. 599 per month to talk and avail other telecom related services through MTNL.

MTNL would provide Wi-Fi connectivity to all the hostels at its own cost to access Internet anywhere in the hostels. It will also setup four additional 3G towers on campus to cover the JNU Campus.

Vice Chancellor Bhattacharya said that academic resources, journals, research publications are shifting to the use of digital media with online access – for which the university’s subscriber cost is over four crore rupees per year. Using this facility the students will be able to access the various journals, research articles and other literature-resource available with JNU from any place in the campus including the hostels, canteen etc. and also when they are outside the Campus or even travelling outside.