Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Piyush Goyal on Friday (15th March 2024) inaugurated National Time Protocol (NTP) for dissemination of Indian Standard Time in Mumbai. This will provide Uniform and precise time information with milliseconds accuracy and will also increase the cyber security. Public can access it via time.nplindia.org or time.nplindia.in. Mr. Goyal also virtually inaugurated timing infrastructure at Regional Reference Standard Laboratory (RRSL) at Faridabad and Ahmedabad. 

 

 

Talking exclusively to Akashvani, CSIR National Physical Laboratory’s Head of Indian Standard Time division Dr. Ashish Agarwal said, India is the first country to implement time distribution system. By the end of year, atomic clock will be installed in the RRSL at Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati and Delhi. Mr. Agarwal said, earlier time was sourced from the Global Positioning System (GPS) but now onwards we will have our own system with the help of Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC). All the mobile operators across the country will have to sync the time using this system, he added.