[India News]: Kolkata, Jan 8 : Union Communications Ministry has issued licences to city-based amateur HAM Radio operators to set up a round-the-clock global communication station at the Sagar Island during this year's Gangasagar Mela.The facility would be available from January 9 to 16 at the fair grounds and relations and pilgrims still searching for their near and dear ones hit by the tsunami would be able to avail the facility free of cost at the centre being put up, an official release here said.HAM volunteers are setting up two special high frequency sets to provide security and communication-related assistance to the fair administration.A 25-member HAM brigade will assist the administration at the Sagar Island in security vigil and in other aspects during the annual fair, the release said.HAM volunteers had played an important role during search and relief operations in the aftermath of the Gujarat earthquake and the super cyclone in Orissa.
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Published at New Kerala Media.
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