INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
likely to give a fillip to the government's telecom projects to make the Prime Minister's vision of Digital India a success
Under the roadmap, the Department of Telecom's (DoT) central sector projects will be allocated more funds.The government has set a target
of creating 1 lakh digital villages in the next five years with an aim to foster financial inclusion
Digital villages are an integral scheme linked with the Digital India initiative, which aims to provide a platform for availability of
services such as telemedicine, tele-education, LED street lighting, wifi and skill development to the people at the gram panchayat level
projects are BharatNet to provide affordable broadband services to citizens and institutions in rural areas where the financial outlay was
of OFC Network in NE I - NE II; provision of 25,000 the block-level telephone exchanges in rural areas; and Comprehensive Telecom
interim Budget, the total allocation was Rs 13,400 crore towards these Central sector schemes, up from Rs 10,000 crore in 2018 Budget
The major part of this funding at Rs 4,725 crore was for the defence spectrum network under the optical fibre cable based network for
The then finance minister Arun Jaitley had announced Rs 10,000-crore outlay for the 2018-19 fiscal on expansion of telecom infrastructure
