{"id":116456,"date":"2021-07-05T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=116456"},"modified":"2021-07-06T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T07:14:16","slug":"bharat-net-fails-to-enter-fast-lane-both-phases-staring-at-delay-amid-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-net-fails-to-enter-fast-lane-both-phases-staring-at-delay-amid-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat-Net fails to enter fast lane \u2013 Both phases staring at delay amid COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source- <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/bharatnet-fails-to-enter-fast-lane-both-phases-staring-at-delays-amid-covid-7389075\/\">The Indian Express<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance:<\/strong> Bharat-Net project is very important for digitisation of rural India<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis \u2013 <\/strong>The Union cabinet revised the Bharat-Net implementation strategy to speed up the rollout of high-speed optical fiber-enabled broadband.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction- <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Bharatnet project was meant to cover all 2.5 lakh gram panchayats [GM] with high-speed optical fiber-enabled broadband. It should have been completed by March 2019. Almost two years later, the government has only been able to connect up to 1.56 lakh GM.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is Bharat-Net project and the reason behind its delay?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Bharat-Net project- <\/strong>The Project began in 2011 as the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN), and was renamed Bharat-Net in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However, <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In March 2020, the deadline for both the phases was pushed back to August 2021. Later it was again pushed beyond August 2021 due to COVID.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Major reason for Delay-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Poor implementation-<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Lack of approved detailed project report.<\/li>\n<li>Non-existent project implementing agencies- no agency made responsible for project implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Non-availability of required funds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Right of way [RoW] challenge<\/strong> \u2013 RoW permission from Forest department, railways, and NHAI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>COVID pandemic &#8211; <\/strong>The pace of the project was affected by the lockdown and movement curbs imposed due to COVID.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Linear architecture<\/strong>&#8211; During phase 1, only single fibre path from the nearest exchange is available for endpoint connection at the gram panchaya [GP]. The GP site is isolated in the event of a failure due to the lack of a backup path.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the revised implementation strategy of the Bharat-Net project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government changed the scheme\u2019s implementation strategy and decided to rope in private players to finish the pending work of the Bharat-Net project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more &#8211; <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-bharatnet-implementation-through-public-private-partnership-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revised Bharat Net Project\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- The Indian Express Relevance: Bharat-Net project is very important for digitisation of rural India Synopsis \u2013 The Union cabinet revised the Bharat-Net implementation strategy to speed up the rollout of high-speed optical fiber-enabled broadband. Introduction- The Bharatnet project was meant to cover all 2.5 lakh gram panchayats [GM] with high-speed optical fiber-enabled broadband. It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-net-fails-to-enter-fast-lane-both-phases-staring-at-delay-amid-covid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bharat-Net fails to enter fast lane \u2013 Both phases staring at delay amid COVID<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704745230},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}