Ashwini Vaishnaw and Devusinh Chauhan have reviewed the progress of BharatNet and directed the Department of Telecommunications officials to expedite the initiative.
Vaishnaw tweeted, “Reviewed the performance of BharatNet project along with my colleague @devusinh for expediting its implementation in rural parts of the country, with Secretary, Telecom and other senior officers at DoT.”
BharatNet is a core constituent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious Digital India program for 1.35 billion Indians.
The Cabinet has enhanced the allocation towards the project by over Rs 19,000 crore to expand its ambit.
The national initiative to connect the country with fibre optic cable-based network for affordable Internet access was originally conceived under the UPA-II regime in 2012, and missed several deadlines since then.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), in its recent draft finding said that the CSC had failed to provide 10 Mbps of Internet speed through Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) connections to state institutions such as hospitals, schools and police stations as mandated.
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