Lok Sabha Question No. 48 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-02
Subject: Optical Fibre Cable
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Dileshwar Kamait, Poonam (Mahajan) Vajendla Rao, Geeta Kora, Chandeshwar Prasad, Saikia Dilip, Chhedi Paswan, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Ramesh Chander Kaushik, Riti Pathak

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 48 TO BE ANSWERED ON 2 ND  FEBRUARY, 2022

## OPTICAL FIBRE CABLE

## †48. SHRI DILESHWAR KAMAIT:

SHRIMATI POONAM MAHAJAN:

SHRIMATI GEETA KORA:

SHRI CHANDESHWAR PRASAD:

SHRI DILIP SAIKIA:

SHRI CHHEDI PASWAN:

SHRI JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA:

SHRI RAMESH CHANDER KAUSHIK:

SHRIMATI RITI PATHAK:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of optical fibre cable laid in Jharkhand, North-eastern States including Assam, Bihar,  Jammu  &  Kashmir,  Haryana  and  Madhya  Pradesh  under  the  National  Optical  Fibre Network Project so far; and the time-frame to achieve the remaining targets;
- (b) the  details  of  the  number  of  gram  panchayats  of  Singhbhum  district  in  Jharkhand, Darang, Udalguri and Nalbari districts in Assam, Rohtas, Kaimur and Supaul districts in Bihar, Jammu district in Jammu-Kashmir, Sidhi district in Madhya Pradesh and the various districts of Maharashtra and Haryana connected with broadband and wi-fi hotspot under the said project so far;
- (c) the  number of such gram panchayats in above said districts of respective States which have not been connected under the said project so far including the reasons therefor;
- (d) the details of the amount allocated, released and spent under the said project during the last three years along with the cost outlay to complete the said project year and State-wise; and
- (e) the details of the problems faced in the implementation of the said project?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The details of optical fibre cable laid in Jharkhand, North Eastern states including Assam, Bihar,  Jammu  &  Kashmir,  Haryana  and  Madhya  Pradesh  under  BharatNet,  earlier  known  as National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN), are given in Annexure-I .  The time frame to achieve the remaining targets is August 2023.

(b) & (c) Under  BharatNet  Project,  the  details  of  the  number  of  Service  Ready  Gram Panchayats  (GPs),  the  number  of  GPs  where  Wi-Fi  hotspot  installed  and  the  number  of  GPs which are yet to be made Service Ready, are given in Annexure-II. Reasons for not connecting GPs so far are delay in implementation by the States in State led model, widely dispersed Gram Panchayats  (GPs)  across  remote  corners,  covering  difficult  terrains  (including  Hilly/  Rocky), Right of Way (RoW) issues, etc.

(d) Total  estimated  project  cost  for  Phase-I  and  Phase-II  of  BharatNet,  approved  by  the Cabinet, is Rs. 42,068 crore. Further, the maximum viability gap funding of Rs. 19,041 crores has  also  been  approved  for  implementation  of  the  Public  Private  Partnership  (PPP)  model  for BharatNet in 16 States.  Therefore,  approval  has  been  accorded  for  total  estimated  cost  of  Rs. 61,109 crores for BharatNet. The State-wise details of funds disbursed under CAPEX by Bharat Broadband Network Limited (the Executing Agency for the Project) during last three years, are given in Annexure-III.

(e) Under BharatNet Phase-II, about 65,000 GPs in 8 States are being implemented under State-led model. The implementation in some of the States is not meeting the targeted time-lines and is adversely affecting the completion of the Project. Further, the other problems faced in the implementation of the project are on account of widely dispersed Gram Panchayats (GPs) across remote corners of the country, covering difficult terrains (including Hilly/ Rocky), Right of Way (RoW) issues and also difficulty of access in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected areas.

Annexure referred to in Part (a) of the Lok Sabha unstarred Question No. 48 for answer on 02.02.2022

Optical  fibre  cable  (OFC)  laid  in  Jharkhand,  North  Eastern  States,  Bihar, Jammu  &  Kashmir,  Haryana  and  Madhya  Pradesh  under  the  National Optical Fibre Network Project (as on 27.01.2022)

|   S. No. | State/UT          |   OFC Laid (Km) |
|----------|-------------------|-----------------|
|        1 | Jharkhand         |           16144 |
|        2 | Bihar             |           27319 |
|        3 | Jammu &Kashmir    |             856 |
|        4 | Haryana           |           11901 |
|        5 | Assam             |            4831 |
|        6 | Madhya Pradesh    |           67199 |
|        7 | Arunachal Pradesh |            1519 |
|        8 | Manipur           |             634 |
|        9 | Meghalaya         |            1069 |
|       10 | Mizoram           |             689 |
|       11 | Nagaland          |            2000 |
|       12 | Tripura           |            1687 |
|       13 | Sikkim            |             895 |

## Annexure-II

Annexure referred to in parts (b) & (c) of the Lok Sabha unstarred Question No. 48 for answer on 02.02.2022

## Details  of  the  number  of  Service  Ready  Gram  Panchayats  (GP)  in  mentioned districts  in  Jharkhand,  Assam,  Bihar,  Jammu  &  Kashmir,  Madhya  Pradesh, Maharashtra and Haryana

| State          | District       |   Number of planned GPs |   Number of Service Ready GPs |   Number of GPs, where Wi-Fi Hotspot installed |   Number of GPs yet to be made service ready |
|----------------|----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
| Jharkhand      | East Singhbhum |                     228 |                           211 |                                            150 |                                           17 |
|                | West Singhbhum |                     209 |                           191 |                                              0 |                                           18 |
| Assam          | Darang         |                      77 |                            25 |                                              0 |                                           52 |
| Assam          | Udalguri       |                     110 |                            18 |                                              0 |                                           92 |
| Assam          | Nalbari        |                      65 |                            38 |                                              0 |                                           27 |
| Bihar          | Rohtas         |                     246 |                           243 |                                              0 |                                           03 |
| Bihar          | Kaimur         |                     150 |                           134 |                                              0 |                                           16 |
| Bihar          | Supaul         |                     181 |                           173 |                                              0 |                                            8 |
| Jammu- Kashmir | Jammu          |                     305 |                           131 |                                            128 |                                          174 |
| Madhya Pradesh | Sidhi          |                     400 |                           157 |                                            147 |                                          243 |
| Maharashtra    | Ahmednagar     |                    1308 |                           658 |                                            230 |                                          650 |
|                | Akola          |                     524 |                           469 |                                             92 |                                           55 |
|                | Amravati       |                     838 |                           836 |                                            174 |                                            2 |
|                | Aurangabad     |                     855 |                           578 |                                            321 |                                          277 |
|                | Beed           |                    1013 |                          1013 |                                            509 |                                            0 |
|                | Bhandara       |                     535 |                           535 |                                            538 |                                            0 |
|                | Buldhana       |                     862 |                           573 |                                            277 |                                          289 |
|                | Chandrapur     |                     824 |                           812 |                                            314 |                                           12 |
|                | Dhule          |                     539 |                           539 |                                            535 |                                            0 |
|                | Gadchiroli     |                     456 |                           241 |                                            230 |                                          215 |
|                | Gondia         |                     553 |                           552 |                                            540 |                                            1 |
|                | Hingoli        |                     562 |                           509 |                                              0 |                                           53 |
|                | Jalgaon        |                    1137 |                          1052 |                                             83 |                                           85 |
|                | Jalna          |                     781 |                           781 |                                            283 |                                            0 |
|                | Kolhapur       |                    1026 |                           742 |                                            590 |                                          284 |
|                | Latur          |                     786 |                           705 |                                            407 |                                           81 |
|                | Nagpur         |                     761 |                           761 |                                            609 |                                            0 |
|                | Nanded         |                    1309 |                           981 |                                            169 |                                          328 |
|                | Nandurbar      |                     590 |                           590 |                                            484 |                                            0 |
|                | Nashik         |                    1373 |                           866 |                                            559 |                                          507 |
|                | Osmanabad      |                     621 |                           621 |                                            601 |                                            0 |
|                | Parbhani       |                     703 |                           442 |                                            280 |                                          261 |
|                | Pune           |                    1360 |                           988 |                                            831 |                                          372 |
|                | Raigad         |                     793 |                           792 |                                            276 |                                            1 |

| Sangli                   |   700 | 603     | 520   | 97   |
|--------------------------|-------|---------|-------|------|
| Satara                   |  1495 | 765     | 463   | 730  |
| Sindhudurg               |   426 | 376     | 147   | 50   |
| Solapur                  |  1025 | 614     | 366   | 411  |
| Thane                    |   667 | 243     | 0     | 424  |
| Wardha                   |   512 | 508     | 198   | 4    |
| Washim                   |   489 | 481     | 103   | 8    |
| Yavatmal                 |  1188 | 1110    | 0     | 78   |
| Palghar                  |   234 | 133     | 0     | 101  |
| GPs under reconciliation |   545 | 0       |       | 545  |
| Ambala                   |   405 | 401     | 401   | 4    |
| Bhiwani                  |   469 | 459     | 445   | 10   |
| Faridabad                |   116 | 111     | 99    | 5    |
| Fatehabad                |   257 | 245     | 245   | 12   |
| Gurgaon                  |   237 | 234     | 232   | 3    |
| Hisar                    |   309 | 305     | 294   | 4    |
| Jhajjar                  |   249 | 249     | 249   | 0    |
| Jind                     |   301 | 300     | 297   | 1    |
| Kaithal                  |   279 | 271     | 268   | 8    |
| Karnal                   |   382 | 372     | 370   | 10   |
| Kurukshetra              |   394 | 382     | 376   | 12   |
| Mahendragarh             |   348 | 343     | 308   | 5    |
| Mewat                    |   294 | 294     | 288   | 0    |
| Palwal                   |   270 | 235     | 215   | 35   |
| Panchkula                |   132 | 126     | 118   | 6    |
| Panipat                  |   174 | 167     | 162   | 7    |
| Rewari                   |   359 | 351     | 312   | 8    |
| Rohtak                   |   140 | 140     | 110   | 0    |
| SIRSA                    |   340 |         | 328   |      |
| Sonipat                  |   330 | 334 324 | 282   | 6 6  |
| Yamunanagar              |   474 | 439     | 432   | 35   |

Annexure referred to in Part (d) of the Lok Sabha unstarred Question No. 48 for answer on 02.02.2022

State/UT wise details of funds disbursed by BBNL

All amount in Rupees

| S. No.   | Name of State /UT                           | CAPEX 2018-19                        | CAPEX 2019-20   | CAPEX 2020-21   |
|----------|---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| 1        | Andaman &Nicobar                            | 0                                    | 128364966       | 13856337        |
| 2        | Assam                                       | 207911324                            | 25752720        | 1155697         |
| 3        | Bihar                                       | 1492594848                           | 2835412688      | 1102495761      |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh                                | 2389491575                           | 580874296       | 6846253267      |
| 5        | Haryana                                     | 496222881                            | 73488185        | 0               |
| 6        | Jammu &Kashmir                              | 203419417                            | 511390300       | 171295396       |
| 7        | Karnataka                                   | 1099896518                           | 67908746        | 44534639        |
| 8        | Kerala                                      | 0                                    | 0               | 0               |
| 9        | Maharashtra                                 | 4638159848                           | 762511621       | 14349711512     |
| 10       | Madhya Pradesh                              | 4490446174                           | 1886926456      | 4123136954      |
| 11       | Punjab                                      | 1251970480                           | 3017295744      | 1232055009      |
| 12       | Rajasthan                                   | 948551801                            | 779640875       | 2268016965      |
| 13       | Uttar Pradesh                               | 5031286827                           | 5000234792      | 3884344103      |
| 14       | Uttarakhand                                 | 622690664                            | 93690271        | 15235286        |
| 15       | West Bengal                                 | 834749017                            | 118486576       | 345594          |
| 16       | Sikkim                                      | 76998370                             | 31227612        | 808986          |
| 17       | Puducherry                                  | 669465                               | 0               | 3441510         |
| 18       | Arunachal Pradesh                           | 5967951                              | 210962723       | 404647595       |
| 19       | Nagaland                                    | 1801998                              | 28476807        | 297679581       |
| 20       | Manipur                                     | 93714562                             | 21260352        | 118384037       |
| 21       | Mizoram                                     | 7831092                              | 12109137        | 306374059       |
| 22       | Tripura                                     | 91444128                             | 0               | 22348973        |
| 23       | Meghalaya                                   | 20819377                             | 58666231        | 187745053       |
| 24       | Gujarat, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman &Diu | 2787710875                           | 9225187162      | 10463914304     |
| 25       | Lakshadweep                                 | 0                                    | 0               | 0               |
| 26       | Telangana                                   | 342490049                            | 3645125         | 2467320000      |
| 27       | Odisha                                      | 549550961                            | 1212855021      | 2730313004      |
| 28       | Jharkhand                                   | 1172808104                           | 556255777       | 3609963032      |
| 29       | Himachal Pradesh                            | 43531150                             | 272007502       | 15910308        |
| 30       | Andhra Pradesh                              | 15557915                             | 1566213936      | 1788430521      |
| 31       | Tamil Nadu                                  | 0                                    | 0               | 394410000       |
|          | Total                                       | 28918287370                          | 29080845622     | 56864127483     |
|          | * Ad hoc payment done for BSNL              | * Ad hoc payment done for BSNL       | 4200000000      |                 |
|          | Adjustment of excess Payment to BSNL        | Adjustment of excess Payment to BSNL |                 | -4229667044     |
|          | TCIL                                        | TCIL                                 |                 | 15578948        |
|          | Grand Total                                 | 28918287370                          | 33280845622     | 52650039387     |

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