Lok Sabha Question No. 634 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-02-05
Subject: GramNet Project
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Sanjay Seth, Kuruva Gorantla Madhav, Chandra Prakash Choudhary, Bheemrao Baswanthrao Patil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 634 TO BE ANSWERED ON 5 TH  FEBRUARY, 2020

## GRAMNET PROJECT

## 634. SHRI SANJAY SETH:

SHRI KURUVA GORANTLA MADHAV:

SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH CHOUDHARY:

SHRI B. B. PATIL:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is planning to provide Wi-Fi in all the villages across the country through GramNet;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise;
- (c) the  number  of  villages  where  the  Government  has  already  provided  the  aforementioned  services, State/UT-wise; and
- (d) whether any private agencies are involved as intermediaries or implementing agencies in the process and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI SANJAY DHOTRE)

(a) to (c) BharatNet project is being implemented in a phased manner to provide broadband connectivity to  all  the  Gram  Panchayats  (approx.  2,50,000)  in  the  country.  As  part  of  BharatNet  project,  the  Last  Mile connectivity, through Wi-Fi or any other suitable broadband access technology, is to be provided in all Gram Panchayats.

The State/UT-wise details of Gram Panchayat where Wi-Fi Services have been provided are attached as Annex-I .

- (d) In  the  1.23  lakh  GPs  (approx.)  of  BharatNet  Phase-I,  the  provisioning  of  Wi-Fi  Services  has  been assigned to Government of Rajasthan, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited(a Special Purpose Vehicle under Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology), etc. In the 1407 GPs of BharatNet Phase-II, the provisioning of connectivity over satellite media, along with Wi-Fi services, has been assigned to BSNL.

## Annex-I

Annexure referred to in Part (a) to (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 634 for Answer on 05.02.2020.

## State/UT-wise details of Wi-Fi provisioning

| S. No.      | States/Union Territory   |   No. of GPs where Wi-Fi hotspots installed |   No. of GPs where Wi-Fi hotspots active |
|-------------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
| 1           | Arunachal Pradesh        |                                         160 |                                      155 |
| 2           | Andhra Pradesh           |                                           0 |                                        0 |
| 3           | Assam                    |                                           4 |                                        4 |
| 4           | Bihar                    |                                         292 |                                      219 |
| 5           | Chandigarh               |                                          12 |                                       12 |
| 6           | Chhattisgarh             |                                         517 |                                      435 |
| 7           | Gujarat                  |                                          86 |                                       65 |
| 8           | Himachal Pradesh         |                                         200 |                                      157 |
| 9           | Haryana                  |                                        1063 |                                      712 |
| 10          | Jammu& Kashmir           |                                         570 |                                      492 |
| 11          | Jharkhand                |                                         312 |                                      254 |
| 12          | Karnataka                |                                        2569 |                                     1869 |
| 13          | Kerala                   |                                         731 |                                      728 |
| 14          | Ladakh                   |                                         170 |                                      169 |
| 15          | Madhya Pradesh           |                                        1350 |                                      826 |
| 16          | Maharashtra              |                                         776 |                                      437 |
| 17          | Manipur                  |                                         204 |                                       44 |
| 18          | Meghalaya                |                                          70 |                                       70 |
| 19          | Mizoram                  |                                          60 |                                       20 |
| 20          | Odisha                   |                                         113 |                                      107 |
| 21          | Puducherry               |                                          81 |                                       81 |
| 22          | Punjab                   |                                           0 |                                        0 |
| 23          | Rajasthan                |                                        8813 |                                     3964 |
| 24          | Tripura                  |                                         157 |                                       77 |
| 25          | Uttar Pradesh            |                                       27095 |                                     6827 |
| 26          | Uttarakhand              |                                         353 |                                      315 |
| 27          | West Bengal              |                                          11 |                                        2 |
| Grand Total | Grand Total              |                                       45769 |                                    18041 |

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