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'''Development and Educational Communication Unit''' is an arm of [[ISRO|Indian Space Research Organisation]] which aims at planning and imparting training the personnel for usage of satellite based communication systems for societal needs. The main objective of the organisation is to plan and envisage satellite usage for the general population in domains such as education and medicine, as well as many others.

==History==
Established in 1989, the Development and Educational Communication Unit of ISRO has been involved in societal research with the objective of bringing India's indigenously developed space technology back to the people of rural India. The [[Space Applications Centre]], [[Ahmedabad]] provides the necessary technical support to the unit. Between 1975 and 1990, this unit implemented the Kheda Communications Project in the [[Kheda]] village of [[Gujarat]] to bring [[satellite communication|satellite-based communication]] to the village residents. This project would go on to receive the IPDC-UNESCO Prize for Rural Communication.<ref name="kheda">{{cite web | url=http://www.sac.gov.in/DECUWeb/projects/hun.htm | title=KHEDA COMMUNICATIONS PROJECTS | publisher=Satellite Application Centre | access-date=21 November 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415163644/http://www.sac.gov.in/DECUWeb/projects/hun.htm | archive-date=15 April 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Projects==
===Kheda Communications Projects===
Started in 1975, KCP was India's first rural communication project. KCP aimed at providing television broadcasting and allied communication services to the targeted rural areas. KCP was a joint collaboration between the Government of India, the United States Government and the United Nations. The [[United Nations Development Program]] (UNDP) donated low cost transmitters and satellite earth stations to this project. About 650 television sets were distributed to nearly 400 villages in this project. The project received the 1985 [[IPDC-UNESCO Prize for Rural Communication]].<ref name="unesco">{{cite web | url=http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/intergovernmental-programmes/ipdc/unesco-ipdc-prize/previous-laureates/ | title=International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) | publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | access-date=9 December 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018201720/http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/intergovernmental-programmes/ipdc/unesco-ipdc-prize/previous-laureates/ | archive-date=18 October 2012 | df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-17/ahmedabad/44161471_1_audience-television-intelsat | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120044028/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-11-17/ahmedabad/44161471_1_audience-television-intelsat | url-status=dead | archive-date=20 November 2013 | title=Non-descript village in Kheda, that incubated India's television revolution, forgotten in history | date=17 November 2013 | access-date=9 December 2013 | work=[[The Times of India]] | author=Chavda, Hitesh}}</ref> The project was subsequently taken as a reference for implementation of the GRAMSAT pilot project.

===Jhabua Development Communications Project===
Jhabua Development Communications Project had evolved out from Kheda Communication projects. Watershed management, health, education and [[panchayati raj]] are the mission purpose of this project. The JDCP has 2 components:
*Broadcasting of information and
*Interactive training programmes
JDCP along with the kheda and EduSat have proven to be successful means to communicate to the remote areas of the country and to provide them an information medium at a reasonably cost.<ref name="jdcp">{{cite web | url=http://www.sac.gov.in/DECUWeb/projects/jdcp.htm | title=JHABUA DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS PROJECT (JDCP) | publisher=Satellite Applications Centre | access-date=21 November 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415195704/http://www.sac.gov.in/DECUWeb/projects/jdcp.htm | archive-date=15 April 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===EduSat===
DECU supported the implementation of the [[GSAT-3|EduSat]] project by installing devices for audio-video data transmission. EduSat is the flagship project of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)]] which aims at providing education to the masses by using a satellite-based transmission system.<ref name="edusat">{{cite web | url=http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/SIT/SITNEW.htm | title=Vigyan Prasar EduSAT Network | publisher=Deptt of Science and Technology | access-date=21 November 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818011652/http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/SIT/SITNEW.htm | archive-date=18 August 2013 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927042548/http://www.isro.org/isrocentres/decu.aspx Official ISRO DECU]

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