{"id":32199,"date":"2018-10-29T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32199"},"modified":"2018-10-29T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:33:10","slug":"bharat-net-covers-1-lakh-panchayats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-net-covers-1-lakh-panchayats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Net covers 1 lakh panchayats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/Industry\/bharatnet-covers-1-lakh-panchayats\/article22399102.ece\"><strong>Bharat Net covers 1 lakh panchayats <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government on Monday said it had laid optical fibre in more than 1 lakh gram panchayats, completing the first phase of the BharatNet project that forms the backbone for the Digital India initiative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Govt. aims to lay fibre network by Dec.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The delay-marred project aims to bring high speed broadband to all 2.5 lakh gram panchayats (GPs) through optical fibre.<\/li>\n<li>The project, earlier called the National Optical Fibre Network, had obtained Cabinet approval in 2011 and the deadline was fixed for the end of 2013.<\/li>\n<li>It was later deferred to September 2015 by the UPA government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shifting deadlines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NDA government re-examined the project status and set a target to complete the roll-out by the end of 2016. This was later delayed to December 2018. Now, the deadline is set for March 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Phase<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said, \u201cFor the second phase, financial incentive and disincentive clauses should be incorporated.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Telecom Secretary ArunaSundararajan said the project\u2019s second phase had been initiated and \u201cwe hope it will be completed well in time by December 2018.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat Net covers 1 lakh panchayats Context The government on Monday said it had laid optical fibre in more than 1 lakh gram panchayats, completing the first phase of the BharatNet project that forms the backbone for the Digital India initiative. Govt. aims to lay fibre network by Dec. The delay-marred project aims to bring&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-net-covers-1-lakh-panchayats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bharat Net covers 1 lakh panchayats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704859565},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32199","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}