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Now, Govt Provides High Speed Broadband Connectivity to 20,000 Villages in India
Government has completed the roll out of national optical fibre network (NOFN) in 20,000 village panchayats to provide high speed broadband connectivity.
It had set target to roll out the network across 50,000 village panchayats by March 31, 2015 and all the 2.5 lakh VPs by the end of 2016.
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"The scale of implementation under new government has been 375 per cent compared to previous regime. Under new regime 1,600 kms of fibre have been laid out.
At present, work has been completed in 20,000 VPs and another 10,000 are almost already," a DoT official said. The NOFN project was conceived in 2011 and deadline to connect all panchayats was fixed by end of 2013 then deferred to September 2015 by UPA government.
The BJP-led government re-examined status and set target to complete roll out in 50,000 VPs by March 31, 2015, another 1 lakh by March 2016 and rest of the VPs by end of 2016.
"There is no change in our target to complete NOFN roll out by 2016," the official said.
NDA Government had set up a committee under former IT Secretary J Satyanarayana to analyse the present structure of NOFN.
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The committee has submitted its report to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad with suggestion to give access of various networks being built by government to people interested in it, including private companies.
"The committee has submitted report to me. Government will look in to their suggestion," Prasad said. The panel which included Telecom Ministry officials -- Aruna Sundararajan and V Umashankar as well as industry experts Kiran Karnik and Som Mittal -- has made 80 recommendations including renaming of project as 'BhartNet' which should be completed by 2017.
Under BharatNet, the committee expects retail broadband services would be available at prices below Rs 150 in poorer states and prices around Rs 250 per month in more economically advanced states with speed "of 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps for all households and on demand capacity to all institutions to realise the vision of Digital India."
The present scheme promises download speed of up to 100 megabit per second. BharatNet will subsume all the ongoing and proposed broadband network projects taking the BharatNet project outlay to about Rs 72,000 crore.
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The panel has suggested make connectivity ring like architecture at district, block and village panchayat level with mix of various technology and interconnect them.
It has suggest use of mix technologies -- optical fibre network along with microwave back-haul spectrum and satellite for regions with difficult terrain -- to spread broadband.
Source: PTI
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