Broadband kiosks in remote areas to go up

The Centre’s ambitious plan to set up a broadband kiosk in areas where poorer sections of society can access is expected to get a fillip. 

The Union Minister Killi Kruparani who reviewed the progress said the project being implemented by BSNL will be given a push this year. 

BSNL launched the project with a target of setting up 30,000 such kiosks in 2009 in Sangli, Maharastra. The WireLine broadband connectivity to rural and remote areas project with provisions to allow triple play-voice, video and data has reached over 20,000 kiosks already. 

In Srikakulam, her home district, she asked BSNL officers to take immediate measures to set up 39 broadband kiosks in the next three months. Currently, the district has 54 such kiosks. 

Broadband is increasingly becoming indispensable as it has access to voice, data, video and online applications such as health, education, agriculture, weather, e-commerce and so on. People who can afford to have broadband facility at their homes, have easy access but the poorer sections still do not have any access to Internet, she said. 

The Centre is committed to ‘Right to Broadband’ to every citizen of the country, she reiterated.

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