Digital health, financial services soon via Digital Village program using BharatNet

NEW DELHI: The government will soon start providing health and financial services, skill development programmes and education to villagers across the country through its ‘Digital Village’ initiative that would utilise broadband connectivity provided through BharatNet, a senior official said.

To start with, the government hopes to provide services in over 700 villages—one in each district of the country—within the first three years, before extending it across the country.

“Under BharatNet, the government provided high speed broadband access to over 1 lakh villages, and now, riding on that connectivity, we want to deliver key services pertaining to health, financial services, skill empowerment and so on to the people in villages,” the official told ET.