The government has said that it has approved a plan to provide broadband connections to 2,50,000 Gram Panchayats in the country. For this it has approved a scheme to connect them through Optical Fibre Cable (OFC).
Minister of state for Communication and Information Technology Milind Deora informed Lok Sabha on 01 March 2013 that 3 pilots have been launched in three blocks of 3 different States, viz, Arain Block in Ajmer District (Rajasthan), Pansagar Block in North Tripura District (Tripura) and Paravada Block in Vishakhapatnam District (Andhra Pradesh) on 15.10.2012 and 100 Mbps bandwidth has been created at all 58 GPs in these blocks.
He further said that 5,81,610 villages out of the 5,93,601 (i.e. 97.97%) inhabited revenue villages as per Census 2001 have been covered with Village Public Telephones (VPTs) facility, as on 31.01.2013.
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