With the success of SITE in educating people in rural and remote areas, the government of India developed a plan of operation for the utilization of television and other facilities under the INSAT series and with the installation of high power and low power transmitters (HPTs and LPTs) in the country.

The INSAT for education project began in October 1983 with the transmission of educational television programmes for children in the age group 5- 11 years. This coverage was initially meant for clusters of villages in six states: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, which came to be known as the INSAT states.

In 1986 and 1987, the transmission was increased to cover the entire six states and all the Hindi speaking states of the country with the help of INSAT-1B, HPTs and LPTs. At present ETV programmes are telecast in several languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Telugu.

These ETV programmes are relayed by all HPTs and LPTs in the six INSAT states and other Hindi speaking states. These programmes reach more than 500 million people of our population.

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