Telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan has said that the government is working on telecom projects worth Rs 1.3 lakh crore, which will considerably give a boost to digital connectivity in India. She also expressed hopes that many more such initiative will come in the next 2-3 years as the government itself is working on portfolio of Rs 1.30 lakh crore. She believed that with this initiative, telecom infrastructure will see very significant expansion, up-gradation and new era of services.
Telecom secretary further highlighted that the projects include enhancing telecom connectivity in about 8,600 villages of North-east region, undersea cable connectivity for Andaman and Nicobar Islands, revised communication project for Defence and increasing connectivity in rural area. She also indicated that telecom commission, the highest decision-making body of the telecom department, has recently approved several projects that include North-East mobile towers, Internet connectivity in 30,000 villages through satellite bandwidth and revised Network for Spectrum (NFS) project.
Sundararajan has noted that presently, around 80,000 village panchayats have started broadband services and by December 1 lakh panchayats will roll out services under the Bharat Net project. She also said the country has become cheaper both in terms of services and devices by a factor of 10 compared to rest of the world under the present regime.
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