In a major thrust towards reaching more viewers and for better coverage in the hilly and difficult terrain of North-Eastern Region of India the North-East Satelite service -a 24 hours Satelite Channel was started on 27th December, 2000 from the premises of PPC DDK Guwahati. So far Doordarshan was able to provide only 53.2% area coverage and 81.5% population coverage in the North-Eastern Region. This was primarily due to the difficult terrain and shadow area in this region. The coverage was also not uniform in all the states and was quite low in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland. Also the quality of signal within the coverage zone was not uniform due to the hilly terrain of the region. The 24 hours Satelite service namely North-East Satelite service was started to solve these problems and bring more areas under the coverage of the North-East satellite service of Doordarshan Programmes on developmental themes, cros border terrorism, militancy, NARCO terrorism, magazine programmes on events and achievements of North-Eastern Region fiction serial on the award winning novels from North-Eastern Region were commissioned during the year 2000-2001.