NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom has complex the time limit to December-end for offering broadband connectivity to all village panchayats under the BharatNet programme, a senior reliable mentioned.
The govt has set the target to finish the community rollout throughout 2.5 lakh gram panchayats by March 2019 after deferring the time limit several occasions for the programme launched way back in 2011.
"The DoT is hopeful of completing the rollout of BharatNet project by December. Internally, everything is being discussed and handled to meet the December timeline," a senior DoT officer told PTI.
Another reliable mentioned that the target was complex as the government wants to spotlight availability of broadband connectivity and digital services and products at panchayat level when it gets into election mode next 12 months.
The govt has laid optical fibre in more than 1 lakh village panchayats and has allocated finances of round Rs 31,000 crore to state governments and public sector companies to rollout top pace broadband community in closing 1.5 lakh panchayats.
BharatNet, began as National Optical Fibre Network in October 2011, was to be completed by the tip of 2013 first of all but the time limit was deferred to September 2015 under the Congress-led UPA 2 regime.
Under the NDA regime, the time limit was set at December 2016 however was later deferred to March 2019.
BharatNet is crucial to satisfy govt's proposed goal of offering broadband access to all with minimal 50 megabit in step with second pace by 2022.
Under the proposed coverage, 'National Digital Communications Policy 2018', the government goals to permit fixed line broadband access to 50 in step with cent of households and get started landline portability services and products.
The coverage suggests offering common broadband protection at 50 mbps to every citizen and offering 1 gbps (gigabit in step with second) connectivity to all gram panchayats of India by 2020 and 10 gbps by 2022.
The govt has set the target to finish the community rollout throughout 2.5 lakh gram panchayats by March 2019 after deferring the time limit several occasions for the programme launched way back in 2011.
"The DoT is hopeful of completing the rollout of BharatNet project by December. Internally, everything is being discussed and handled to meet the December timeline," a senior DoT officer told PTI.
Another reliable mentioned that the target was complex as the government wants to spotlight availability of broadband connectivity and digital services and products at panchayat level when it gets into election mode next 12 months.
The govt has laid optical fibre in more than 1 lakh village panchayats and has allocated finances of round Rs 31,000 crore to state governments and public sector companies to rollout top pace broadband community in closing 1.5 lakh panchayats.
BharatNet, began as National Optical Fibre Network in October 2011, was to be completed by the tip of 2013 first of all but the time limit was deferred to September 2015 under the Congress-led UPA 2 regime.
Under the NDA regime, the time limit was set at December 2016 however was later deferred to March 2019.
BharatNet is crucial to satisfy govt's proposed goal of offering broadband access to all with minimal 50 megabit in step with second pace by 2022.
Under the proposed coverage, 'National Digital Communications Policy 2018', the government goals to permit fixed line broadband access to 50 in step with cent of households and get started landline portability services and products.
The coverage suggests offering common broadband protection at 50 mbps to every citizen and offering 1 gbps (gigabit in step with second) connectivity to all gram panchayats of India by 2020 and 10 gbps by 2022.
DoT gears up to complete BharatNet rollout ahead of schedule
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