BharatNet

[Sarkar]

Under BharatNet, the committee expects retail broadband services should be available at prices below Rs 150 a month in poorer states.


The government has digitally connected 20,000 village panchayats across the country under the Digital India programme and has decided to overhaul the national broadband project programme, renaming it BharatNet.

The news comes a day after a committee set up by the PMO to analyse the structure of the national optical fibre network (NOFN), now BharatNet, which was initiated by the previous UPA regime, submitted its recommendations to the telecom and minister IT Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Under BharatNet, the committee expects retail broadband services should be available at prices below Rs 150 a month in poorer states and around Rs 250 per month in more economically advanced state, with speeds ranging between 2 Mbps and 20 Mbps for all households. It has further recommended on demand capacity to all institutions.

Interestingly, the government had previously envisaged broadband speeds of up to 100 Mbps. It will subsume all the ongoing and proposed broadband network projects taking the BharatNet project outlay to about Rs 72,000 crore.

Indian Govt completes broadband rollout in 20k panchayats; renames NOFN as BharatNet | ET Tech

 

[shawl_who]

gud.. so now villages getting internet connectivity :clap

 

[Bapun]

The department of telecommunications has sent a proposal on the second phase of the BharatNet project to the Cabinet.

In this phase, the plan is to connect 150,000 panchayats by December next year. BharatNet (earlier National Optical Fibre Network) was launched in 2013, to create the infrastructure for providing broadband connectivity of 100 Mbps to all gram panchayats.

In the first phase, the government has connected 100,000 gram panchayats.

An official said the revised outlay is Rs 42,068 crore, comprising Rs 11,148 crore for the first phase, Rs 18,792 crore for the second, Rs 4,000 crore for last-mile connectivity and Rs 6,046 crore for operational maintenance.

In the second phase, there is to be a mix of optic fibre cable (underground and aerial), as also radio and satellite modes. Bharat Broadband Network is the nodal agency to oversee the work. The government says around 150 gram panchayats are being connected each day.

Proposal on BharatNet with Cabinet

 

[Bapun]

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[Bapun]

Government allocates projects worth Rs 25,000 crore to BSNL

The big projects include laying of optical fibre based network dedicated for use by Defence worth Rs 13, 334 crore and Rs 6,500 crore for execution of second phase of BharatNet Project.

Government allocates projects worth Rs 25,000 crore to BSNL - ET Telecom

 

[Goalgappa]

Very good initiative

 

[Digital Mastermind]

Another promise fulfilled

 

[id_866]

only a person living in village will have to say whether this promise is complete or not

 

[piinku1]

i live in village,yet to see it

 

[im_dude]

Any plan details are there? Otherwise it's only on paper nothing happened.