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Government to connect 55,000 villages with phones by December 2016

Government to connect 55,000 villages with phones by December 2016

The telecom department plans to take mobile networks by December 2016 to nearly 10 per cent of Indian villages that are still unconnected, to make the government´s ambitious Digital India programme more pervasive. Of the 6,00,000 villages in the country, about 55,000 are still awaiting mobile connectivity.

´In sync with PM´s vision, it has become imperative to offer digital services on mobile platform,´ Telecom Secretary Rakesh Garg said, speaking at the´Good Governance Day´ programme hosted by the Ministry of Communications and IT. Under the Rs 1.13 lakh crore mega Digital India initiative, the government aims to connect the country with broadband Internet.

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