Crore will be allocated to Bharatnet.
Bharatnet' and‘Saubhagya' are good steps in this direction.
The entire Bharatnet network
and the Digital India project is completely dependent on BSNL.
In January this year, the agency executing Bharatnet said 116,411 village councils were"service ready".
Bharatnet has faced also difficulties with electricity supply,
theft, low-quality cables and poorly maintained equipment.
Based on NOFN experiences, newer, updated and upgraded version- Bharatnet was conceived as a nationwide broadband network.
Bharatnet was first conceived in 2011 by the then
Congress government as the National Optical Fibre Network but did not make much headway in its pilot phase.
This move is in step with Government's‘Bharatnet' project, which is
being implemented to bring high speed broadband Internet service to all the 250,000 Gram Panchayat's in India.
Digital Village Guruwara In another big step towards Digital India plan, the central government will provide free
WiFi till March 2020 to all villages connected through the Bharatnet broadband service.