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Govt to develop Broadband Readiness Index for States, Union Territories

17 Jul 2019 Evaluate

In order to develop a Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) for Indian States and Union Territories (UT) (2019-2022), the Department of Telecom (DoT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). The first estimate will be made in 2019 and subsequently every year until 2022. The proposed index will appraise the condition of the underlying digital infrastructure and related factors at the State/UT level.

The Broadband Readiness Index will be consist of two parts. Part one will focus on infrastructure development based on the measurement of nine parameters including availability of state policy on right of way (RoW) & towers, percentage of mobile towers connected with fibre and adoption of the national building code 2016 by the state.

Part two will consist of demand side parameters which will be captured through primary surveys. It will include indicators such as percentage of households using computers/ laptops with internet connection, percentage of households with fixed broadband connection and internet users as a percentage of the population. The primary survey will be conducted annually until 2022.

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