. More than two-thirds of the villages in India have already been covered with the Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) telephone facility. . In order to strengthen the flow of information from the grassroot to the higher level, the government has made special provision to extend twenty-four hours STD facility to every village in the country. . There is a uniform rate of STD facilities all over India. It has been made possible by integrating the development in space technology with communication technology.