Lok Sabha Question No. 57 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-02
Subject: High Speed network
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Ranjeetsingh Naik Nimbalkar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 57 TO BE ANSWERED ON 2 ND  FEBRUARY, 2022

## HIGH SPEED NETWORK

## †57. SHRI RANJEETSINGH HINDURAO NAIK NIMBALKAR:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Wi-Fi and other high speed networks and mobile networks is not available in the remote rural areas of Madha Parliamentary Constituency of Maharashtra and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the people of this area has to face many difficulties and hardships due to this and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the POS machines do not function due to non-availability of network there resulting in non-delivery of ration on time;
- (d) if so, the details thereof;
- (e) whether  there  is  any  proposal  to  install  mobile  towers  in  Maharashtra  including  Madha Parliamentary Constituency; and
- (f) if so, district and State-wise details of the mobile towers installed?

## ANSWER

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

(a) & (b) As  per  data  provided  by  Telecom  Service  Providers  and  field  units  of  Department  of Telecommunications,  a  total  number  of  678  villages  are  having  either  2G,  3G  or  4G  wireless  mobile internet coverage out of around 683 inhabited villages (as per Census 2011) in the Madha Parliamentary Constituency. In addition to this, under BharatNet project, 420 Gram Panchayats(GPs) have been made service  ready  with  Broadband  infrastructure  and  Wi-Fi  have  been  installed  in  291  GPs  in  the  Madha Parliamentary Constituency.

(c ) & (d) In event of non-availability of network in Electronic Point of Sale (ePOS) devices in Fair Price  shops,  National  Informatics  Centre(NIC)/  State  technical  teams  have  developed  the  software  for ePOS  devices  where  the  facility  of  recording  offline  transactions  (without  biometric  authentication)  is available.

- (e) Under Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) schemes for provision of 4G mobile coverage in uncovered villages in Aspirational districts and Left Wing Extremism(LWE) Area Phase-II, there is a plan to install 583 mobile towers in Maharashtra.
- (f) State-wise and District-wise details in Maharashtra of mobile towers installed as on 31.12.2021 are at Annexure A and Annexure B respectively.

Annexure A

## Annexure referred to in Part (f) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 57 for answer on 02.02.2022.

## State-wise number of Mobile towers as on 31-12-2021

| SN   | State/UT                           |   No of Mobile towers |
|------|------------------------------------|-----------------------|
| 1.   | Andaman &Nicobar                   |                   308 |
| 2.   | Andhra Pradesh                     |                 24533 |
| 3.   | Arunachal Pradesh                  |                  1334 |
| 4.   | Assam                              |                 16011 |
| 5.   | Bihar                              |                 37307 |
| 6.   | Chandigarh                         |                  1180 |
| 7.   | Chhattisgarh                       |                 14141 |
| 8.   | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu |                   421 |
| 9.   | Delhi                              |                 21643 |
| 10.  | Goa                                |                  1534 |
| 11.  | Gujarat                            |                 41803 |
| 12.  | Haryana                            |                 22263 |
| 13.  | Himachal Pradesh                   |                  8181 |
| 14.  | Jammu &Kashmir                     |                 10149 |
| 15.  | Jharkhand                          |                 19235 |
| 16.  | Karnataka                          |                 44787 |
| 17.  | Kerala                             |                 19647 |
| 18.  | Laddakh                            |                   466 |
| 19.  | Lakshadweep                        |                    32 |
| 20.  | Madhya Pradesh                     |                 36689 |
| 21.  | Maharashtra                        |                 73435 |
| 22.  | Manipur                            |                  2406 |
| 23.  | Meghalaya                          |                  1982 |
| 24.  | Mizoram                            |                  1096 |
| 25.  | Nagaland                           |                  1468 |
| 26.  | Odisha                             |                 22991 |
| 27.  | Puducherry                         |                   704 |
| 28.  | Punjab                             |                 21860 |
| 29.  | Rajasthan                          |                 37342 |
| 30.  | Sikkim                             |                   686 |
| 31.  | Tamil Nadu                         |                 45006 |
| 32.  | Telangana                          |                 26814 |
| 33.  | Tripura                            |                  2407 |
| 34.  | Uttar Pradesh                      |                 82189 |
| 35.  | Uttarakhand                        |                  8568 |
| 36.  | West Bengal                        |                 44520 |
|      | Grand Total                        |                695138 |

## Annexure referred to in Part (f) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 57 for Answer on 02.02.2022.

## District-wise no. of Mobile towers in Maharashtra on 31.12.2021

| Sr.No.   | District                                |   No. of Mobile towers |
|----------|-----------------------------------------|------------------------|
| 1.       | Ahmednagar                              |                   2627 |
| 2.       | Akola                                   |                    913 |
| 3.       | Amravati                                |                   1439 |
| 4.       | Aurangabad                              |                   2247 |
| 5.       | Beed                                    |                   1162 |
| 6.       | Bhandara                                |                    538 |
| 7.       | Buldhana                                |                   1067 |
| 8.       | Chandrapur                              |                   1015 |
| 9.       | Dhule                                   |                    977 |
| 10.      | Gadchiroli                              |                    423 |
| 11.      | Gondia                                  |                    560 |
| 12.      | Hingoli                                 |                    547 |
| 13.      | Jalgaon                                 |                   1934 |
| 14.      | Jalna                                   |                    859 |
| 15.      | Kolhapur                                |                   2031 |
| 16.      | Mumbai City (including Mumbai Suburban) |                  11760 |
| 17.      | Latur                                   |                   1101 |
| 18.      | Nagpur                                  |                   3347 |
| 19.      | Nanded                                  |                   1462 |
| 20.      | Nandurbar                               |                    585 |
| 21.      | Nashik                                  |                   3275 |
| 22.      | Osmanabad                               |                    865 |
| 23.      | Palghar                                 |                   1158 |
| 24.      | Parbhani                                |                    716 |
| 25.      | Raigad                                  |                   2228 |
| 26.      | Ratnagiri                               |                    862 |
| 27.      | Sangli                                  |                   1623 |
| 28.      | Satara                                  |                   1663 |
| 29.      | Sindhudurg                              |                    426 |
| 30.      | Solapur                                 |                   2437 |
| 31.      | Thane                                   |                   8787 |
| 32.      | Wardha                                  |                    713 |
| 33.      | Washim                                  |                    499 |
| 34.      | Yavatmal                                |                   1185 |
| 35.      | Pune                                    |                  10404 |
|          | Total                                   |                  73435 |

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