Wifi in east Delhi by year end: AAP government

The Aam Aadmi Party government on Friday said over 500 locations across East Delhi will be made high-speed wifi zones by December 2016, allowing access to free internet till a specific limit daily, one of their a key poll promises.

Vice-chairman of Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC) of Delhi Ashish Khetan said the Wifi limit would suffice the average daily usage requirement under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) rules. The project would be implemented by the Delhi IT department, for which tenders would be floated soon.

According to Khetan 120 people can access Wifi at a time through each of the 1000 hot spots of the country.

Khetan said that 3,000 more access points will be added if needed.

"The tender will have details of free data usage limit. The benchmark would be average data usage by an individual per day as defined by TRAI," Mr Khetan said.

He said the Public Works Department is the nodal agency for the optic-fibre project, which he said was an essential pre-requisite for a smart city. Work has started in this regard, he added.