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High-speed Net set to make inroads into state’s villages

The Central government’s ambitious BharatNet project is set to bring digital and internet revolution in rural areas very soon as work to lay optical fibre cable in rural India is underway at rapid speed. This will enable Atal Seva Kendras to be equipped with high speed internet services and benefit the rural public. 

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The Central government’s ambitious BharatNet project is set to bring digital and internet revolution in rural areas very soon as work to lay optical fibre cable in rural India is underway at rapid speed. This will enable Atal Seva Kendras to be equipped with high speed internet services and benefit the rural public. 

‘The high internet speed that is accessible in America is now going to be accessible in rural India after the optical fibre cable work is over,” sadi a senior BSNL official.     

The work to lay optical fibre cable is speedily underway in Kota, Bundi, Jhalawar and Baran districts of the division, General Manager (GM), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Kota, Sanjeev Singhal said in the Kota district BSNL advisory committee meeting held here on Tuesday. Under the BharatNet project, the work to lay optical fibre cable has been completed in 121 out of a total 178 gram panchyats of Bundi district and 117 out of 161 gram panchyats in Kota district, he said adding in Baran and Jhalawar districts, the work is over 110 out of 190 and in 100 out of 250 gram panchyats, respectively.

The work to lay fibre cable across rural areas of Kota division is likely to be completed by April this year following which the Atal Seva Kendras in rural area would get high speed internet services as that of in America, he said. ‘The high internet service that is accessible in America would be accessible in rural India,” Singhal told this correspondent while elaborating on the BharatNET project. “Now, rural India would be digitally urban,” he further said adding the government officials at gram panchyats would be interacted through video conferencing.       

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The high internet service that is accessible in America would be accessible in rural India. The work to lay optical fibre cable is speedily underway in Kota, Bundi, Jhalawar and Baran districts

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