Lok Sabha Question No. 2382 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-15
Subject: Project WANI
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Malook Nagar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2382 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15 TH  MARCH, 2023

## PROJECT WANI

## †2382. SHRI MALOOK NAGAR:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the present status of public Wi-Fi project 'WANI' along with the details of plan to promote it in rural and backward areas of the Country;
- (b) whether the Government has made any efforts for this project and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the details of the companies that have shown interest in Project 'WANI'?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS (SHRI DEVUSINH CHAUHAN)

(a) & (b) As  on  09-03-2023,  1,47,764  Wi-Fi  hotspots  have  been  deployed  under  Prime Minister's Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM WANI) framework in the country including in rural and backward areas of the country. State/Union Territory(UT) wise number of hotspots under PM WANI framework as on 09-03-2023, is attached as Annexure.

Several  workshops,  press  briefs  and  advertisements  have  been  undertaken/issued  by  the Department  to  promote  awareness  and  various  ministries,  departments,  organizations,  State Government / UTs have also been requested to arrange for deployment/promotion of PM WANI.

(c) 158  companies  have  registered  in  Central  registry  for  PM-WANI  as  Public  Data  Office Aggregators (PDOA) as on 09-03-2023.

## Annexure

Annexure referred to in reply to Part (a)&(b) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.2382 to be answered on 15.03.2023.

The State/UT wise number of hotspots under PM WANI framework

| State/UT          |   Total WI-FI Hotspots |
|-------------------|------------------------|
| Andaman & Nicobar |                    246 |
| Andhra Pradesh    |                   6057 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |                    598 |
| Assam             |                    856 |
| Bihar             |                   3767 |
| Chandigarh        |                    256 |
| Chhattisgarh      |                   2796 |
| Delhi             |                  40521 |
| Goa               |                    422 |
| Gujarat           |                   4036 |
| Himachal Pradesh  |                    937 |
| Haryana           |                   3739 |
| Jharkhand         |                   1000 |
| Jammu & Kashmir   |                   1478 |
| Karnataka         |                  18807 |
| Kerala            |                   4899 |
| Ladakh            |                    371 |
| Lakshadweep       |                      1 |
| Maharashtra       |                  15374 |
| Meghalaya         |                    147 |
| Manipur           |                      9 |
| Madhya Pradesh    |                   7095 |
| Mizoram           |                      1 |
| Nagaland          |                     76 |
| Odisha            |                   2811 |
| Punjab            |                   3682 |
| Puducherry        |                     89 |
| Rajasthan         |                   2766 |
| Sikkim            |                     13 |
| Telangana         |                   4230 |
| Tamil Nadu        |                   7412 |
| Tripura           |                    301 |
| Uttarakhand       |                    892 |
| Uttar Pradesh     |                   8234 |
| West Bengal       |                   3845 |
| Total             |                 147764 |

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