Lok Sabha Question No. 2960 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-03
Subject: Progress made under BharatNet
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: M V V Satyanarayana

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2960 TO BE ANSWERED ON 3 RD  AUGUST, 2022

## PROGRESS MADE UNDER BHARATNET

## 2960.   SHRI M.V.V. SATYANARAYANA:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the progress made under BharatNet, which aims at providing connectivity to 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats through optical fibre including the impact of the same, State-UT-wise;
- (b) whether the Government is looking to further extend the scope of the same; and
- (c) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The State/UT wise details of progress made under BharatNet is given in Annexure-I . The infrastructure  created  under  BharatNet  project  is  a  national asset,  accessible  on  a  nondiscriminatory basis to the Service Providers, and the same can be utilized to provide benefits of telecom services, such as e-Health, e-Education, e-Agriculture services etc. to the citizens.
- (b) & (c) The scope of BharatNet has been extended to connect all inhabited villages beyond GPs across the country.

Annexure referred to in Part  (a)  of  the  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question  No.  2960  for  answer  on 03.08.2022

State/UT-wise details of Service Ready Gram Panchayats (GPs) under BharatNet (as on 25.07.2022)

| S. No.   | State/UT                                 |   No. of Service Ready GPs |
|----------|------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
| 1        | Andaman &Nicobar Islands                 |                         41 |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh*                          |                       2840 |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh                        |                        769 |
| 4        | Assam                                    |                       1511 |
| 5        | Bihar                                    |                       8307 |
| 6        | Chandigarh                               |                         12 |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh*                            |                       9138 |
| 8        | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu |                         38 |
| 9        | Delhi                                    |                          0 |
| 10       | Goa#                                     |                          0 |
| 11       | Gujarat*                                 |                      14190 |
| 12       | Haryana                                  |                       6082 |
| 13       | Himachal Pradesh                         |                        407 |
| 14       | Jammu &Kashmir                           |                       1082 |
| 15       | Jharkhand*                               |                       4297 |
| 16       | Karnataka                                |                       6084 |
| 17       | Kerala                                   |                        978 |
| 18       | Ladakh                                   |                        191 |
| 19       | Lakshadweep                              |                          9 |
| 20       | Madhya Pradesh                           |                      17751 |
| 21       | Maharashtra*                             |                      22124 |
| 22       | Manipur                                  |                       1440 |
| 23       | Meghalaya                                |                        654 |
| 24       | Mizoram                                  |                        452 |
| 25       | Nagaland                                 |                        232 |
| 26       | Odisha*                                  |                       6776 |
| 27       | Puducherry                               |                         98 |
| 28       | Punjab                                   |                      12668 |
| 29       | Rajasthan                                |                       8770 |
| 30       | Sikkim                                   |                         20 |
| 31       | Tamil Nadu*$                             |                          0 |
| 32       | Telangana*                               |                       8110 |
| 33       | Tripura                                  |                        726 |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh                            |                      38222 |
| 35       | Uttarakhand                              |                       1662 |
| 36       | West Bengal                              |                       2363 |
|          | Total                                    |                     178044 |

Note: Delhi has no GPs and thus not taken up under BharatNet Project.

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