{"id":130228,"date":"2021-08-31T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=130228"},"modified":"2021-09-01T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:44:43","slug":"ppp-model-of-bharatnet-dot-starts-meets-hopes-to-float-bid-by-sept-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ppp-model-of-bharatnet-dot-starts-meets-hopes-to-float-bid-by-sept-end\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP model of BharatNet: DoT starts meets, hopes to float bid by Sept-end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>PPP model of BharatNet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d published in Indian Express on 31st August, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started pre-bid meetings with various stakeholders with respect to the public-private partnership model implementation for BharatNet.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is BharatNet Project?<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>BharatNet <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a project envisioned by the Government of India to digitally connect all the Gram Panchayats (GPs) and Villages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The project is <\/b><b>being implemented <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the Department of Telecommunication under the Ministry of Communications<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-bharatnet-implementation-through-public-private-partnership-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BharatNet Project<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>BharatNet project through Public-Private Partnership model:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Under this model<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, private partners will be <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">selected through a competitive international bidding process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The selected private partner <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be responsible for the creation, upgradation, operation, maintenance and utilisation of BharatNet.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The project will initially <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be implemented in 16 states, with an aim to connect 3.61 lakh villages with the internet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Moreover, the project <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be divided into nine packages, each corresponding to one or more telecom circles. No private investor will be awarded more than four packages to avoid monopoly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is based on the article \u201cPPP model of BharatNet\u201d published in Indian Express on 31st August, 2021. What is the News? The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started pre-bid meetings with various stakeholders with respect to the public-private partnership model implementation for BharatNet. What is BharatNet Project? BharatNet is a project envisioned&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ppp-model-of-bharatnet-dot-starts-meets-hopes-to-float-bid-by-sept-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PPP model of BharatNet: DoT starts meets, hopes to float bid by Sept-end<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[9438,3386,299],"class_list":["post-130228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-bharatnet-project","tag-digital-infrastructure","tag-infrastructure","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704661817},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130228","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}