In Kolkata, Union Communications & IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad today inaugurated an Intelligent Network Platform (IN -Platform) in a well-attended function at BSNL Nodal Centre at Salt Lake. The IN System can handle the entire mobile subscriber base of the Eastern and North Eastern States. <br/><br/>Addressing the inaugural programme, Mr. Prasad said that the Union government is according full importance to the development of Telecom & IT Sector as this sector can become an effective enabler for all the other sectors in the country for over-all economic development. He reminded all the employees of BSNL and DOT that the performance of BSNL Network and Services in West Bengal needs to be improved significantly in order to visualize the Digital India initiatives of the Government. <br/><br/>He mentioned that while the telecom services in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi have improved significantly and BSNL as a whole has achieved an operating profit in the last year, West Bengal Telecom Circle and Calcutta Telecom District are still lagging behind. On this occasion the Minister also released a philately product on Cellular Jail. Created at an estimated cost of Rs 43 crore the IN-Platform has a capacity to handle 68 million subscriber and 380 million vouchers through its integrated Voucher Management System Server. <br/><br/>The IN System has a Disaster Recovery Site at Cuttack in Odisha to take care of all the prepaid subscribers of East Zone in case of any failure in the main site. This site is giving seamless service on 24X7 basis. Migration of all the prepaid subscribers of East Zone has been successfully completed to this new platform.