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): the village phone or polli phone project of gp , brought cell phone ownership to 260,000 rural poor in 50,000 villages since march 1997.