Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): the village phone -lrb- polli phone -rrb- project of gp has brought cell-phone ownership to 260,000 rural poor in over 50,000 villages since the beginning of the project in march 1997.
Output (English): since the beginning of the polli phone project , the village phone has brought cell phone ownership to 260,000 rural poor in over 50,000 villages.