The government of India inked a pact with The Kingdom of Lesotho towards linking the African state with e-network facilitating services such as tele-education and tele-medicine and net connectivity for video conferencing among the heads of states.

Part of the pan-African project valued at Rs 542.9 crore which aims to connect African students from Indian Universities, the project will also provide tele-medicine services by way of online medical consultation in the patient-end locations from Indian medical specialists.

Lesotho becomes the 36^th country from the region to have signed the agreement. India’s Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) has been designated as the implementing agency for the project. TCIL will be responsible for designing the network, procuring and installing the equipment, provide operations and management services for five years after commissioning the network.