Government to provide free WiFi services through ‘Bharatnet’ to all the villages by March 2020

Communication
and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that free WiFi services will be
provided to all villages across the country through Bharatnet till March next
year.

Inaugurating
Digital Village Gurawara in Rewari in Haryana, Mr Prasad said, the Ministry has
already connected one lakh 30 thousand gram panchayats through Bharatnet.

He said, the
target is to take this to two lakh 50 thousand gram panchayats. Mr Prasad also
said, the target of the government is to convert at least 15% of villages to
the digital village in the next four years.

The Minister
said, the process of empowering villages is on track and day is not far off
when rural India will take the lead in shaping the country’s dreams.