Lok Sabha Question No. 2384 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-08-06
Subject: BharatNet Project
Ministry: PANCHAYATI RAJ
Asked by: Shri Rajeev Rai

## †2384 SHRI RAJEEV RAI:

Will the Minister of PANCHAYATI RAJ be pleased to state:

- (a) the names of the schemes under which funds are being released by the Government directly to the district councils, block committees and village panchayats apart from the funds of Central Finance Commission at present;
- (b) whether the target to make the facility of broadband available to all the village panchayats had been fixed under BharatNet project;
- (c) if so, the number of panchayats where the work has been completed proportional to the target and the details thereof, State-wise;
- (d) whether any timeline has been fixed to complete the pending work in the village Panchayats; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR PANCHAYATI RAJ

(PROF. S.P. SINGH BAGHEL)

- (a) Under the Scheme of Incentivization of Panchayats (IoP), a Central Component of Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA), the Ministry of Panchayati Raj releases funds directly to the Panchayats at District, Block and Village level with effect from 2021-22 and funds are released only to those Panchayats who win National Panchayats Awards competition held by the Ministry annually.
- (b) to (e) As per information provided by the Department of Telecommunication, responsible for providing broadband connectivity, BharatNet project is being implemented in a phased manner to provide broadband connectivity to 2.6 lakh Gram Panchayats in the country. As on 30.06.2024, 2,13,398 GPs (82.1%) have been made service ready. An amended BharatNet Program for strengthening and expanding the network has been approved on 04.08.2023. The construction phase for network under amended BharatNet Program is three years from award of the project. The State-wise and Phase-wise service ready/planned BharatNet programe details are given at Annexure .

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## GOVERNMENTOF INDIA MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. † 2384

ANSWERED ON 06.08.2024

## BHARATNET PROJECT

Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2384 regarding BharatNet Project answered on 06.08.2024

State-wise and Phase-wise Service Ready/Planned BharatNet Programme for Boradband Connectivity to the Gram Panchayats in the Country

|   Sr. No. | State              |   Planned in Phase-I&II |   Service ready In Phase-I&II |   Planned Amended BharatNet programme |
|-----------|--------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|         1 | Assam              |                    1507 |                          1507 |                                  1158 |
|         2 | Bihar              |                    8340 |                          8340 |                                    65 |
|         3 | Chhattisgarh       |                   10031 |                          9695 |                                  1680 |
|         4 | Haryana            |                    6082 |                          6082 |                                   174 |
|         5 | Jammu &Kashmir     |                    1105 |                          1099 |                                  3194 |
|         6 | Karnataka          |                    6084 |                          6084 |                                     6 |
|         7 | Kerala             |                     978 |                           978 |                                     0 |
|         8 | MadhyaPradesh      |                   17850 |                         17850 |                                  5008 |
|         9 | Maharashtra        |                   27689 |                         24394 |                                   250 |
|        10 | Punjab             |                   12668 |                         12668 |                                   669 |
|        11 | Rajasthan          |                    8776 |                          8776 |                                  2576 |
|        12 | Uttar Pradesh (E)  |                   34439 |                         34231 |                                  8633 |
|        13 | Uttar Pradesh (W)  |                   12472 |                         12386 |                                  3746 |
|        14 | Uttarakhand        |                    1994 |                          1984 |                                  5943 |
|        15 | West Bengal        |                    2679 |                          2677 |                                   661 |
|        16 | Sikkim             |                     173 |                            35 |                                    12 |
|        17 | Chandigarh         |                      12 |                            12 |                                     0 |
|        18 | Lakshadweep        |                      10 |                             9 |                                     0 |
|        19 | Arunachal Pradesh  |                    1156 |                          1108 |                                   803 |
|        20 | Nagaland           |                     236 |                           233 |                                   771 |
|        21 | Manipur            |                    1536 |                          1469 |                                  1400 |
|        22 | Mizoram            |                     541 |                           530 |                                   243 |
|        23 | Tripura            |                     740 |                           740 |                                   439 |
|        24 | Meghalaya          |                     719 |                           697 |                                  1138 |
|        25 | Gujarat            |                   14320 |                         14316 |                                     4 |
|        26 | Daman &Diu         |                      18 |                            18 |                                     0 |
|        27 | Dadra &NagarHaveli |                      20 |                            20 |                                     0 |
|        28 | Puducherry         |                      98 |                            98 |                                    12 |
|        29 | AndhraPradesh      |                   12955 |                         12955 |                                   526 |

| 30   | Telangana        |   12733 |   10812 |   132 |
|------|------------------|---------|---------|-------|
| 31   | Odisha           |    6788 |    6785 |    10 |
| 32   | Jharkhand        |    4393 |    4388 |    23 |
| 33   | Himachal Pradesh |     411 |     409 |  3204 |
| 34   | Ladakh           |     193 |     193 |     0 |
| 35   | Goa              |       0 |       0 |   191 |
| 36   | TamilNadu        |   12525 |    9748 |     0 |
| 37   | Andaman &Nicobar |      72 |      72 |     0 |
|      | Total            |  222343 |  213398 | 42671 |

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