Broadband in all village panchayats by 2018: Telecom secretary @ Good News for Rural Area Govt Educational Institution
The
Centre is hopeful of achieving the complete roll-out of broadband network
across 2.5 lakh village panchayats in the country by 2018, telecom secretary J
S Deepak Thursday said.
Speaking
on Bharat Net programme, which aims to provide broadband connectivity to all
panchayats in the country, Deepak said all panchayats will have an ecosystem
that will further boost the connectivity and bridge the digital divide in the
country.
All
village panchayats in the country will be connected through fibre optic network
by 2018, he added.
The
government had earlier set deadline of December 2016 to roll out optical fibre
network across all panchayats.
He
was speaking at Global Exhibition on Services in Greater Noida. Deepak said the
pace of digitisation is accelerating and impressive but a lot still needs to be
done.
The
Telecom Secretary highlighted three areas that needed focus to bridge this
divide – connectivity, language and digital illiteracy, and said the government
and industry must work together to address the same.
On
challenges in terms of language, Deepak said that at present most of the mobile
communications are taking place in English but by January 1, 2017 mobile
devices will be enabled for English, Hindi and one vernacular language.
Source | http://tech.firstpost.com/
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