Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Communication and IT Minister, announced that free WiFi services will be provided to all villages across the country through Bharatnet till March 2020.
- The Union Minister inaugurated Digital Village Gurawara in Rewari in Haryana. During inaugaration, he announced the the government has already connected one lakh 30 thousand gram panchayats through Bharatnet.
- The target is to take this to two lakh 50 thousand gram panchayats.
- The target of the government is to convert at least 15 per cent of villages to the digital village in the next four years.
- The Minister said, the process of empowering villages is on track and day is not far off when rural India will take the lead in shaping the country’s of dreams.
