Free WiFi at 500 rail stations in 7 days! Indian Railways creates record; now 1500 stations have internet

New record by Indian Railways! Giving a boost to Modi government’s “Digital India” initiative, RailTel, which is a mini ratna CPSU under the Ministry of Railways has provided free high-speed WiFi service to as many as 500 stations in a short period of seven days with ‘RailWire’. The PSU, which provides one of the largest and fastest public WiFi networks of the world, is ceaselessly working in order to set up free WiFi at all railway stations across the country within a year, except halt stations. Moreover, RailTel has also tied up with Tata Trust for providing free WiFi at 4,791 B, C, D and E category railway stations.

Recently, Northern Railways’ Sahibabad station has become the 1500th railway station in India to get the free WiFi facility. Earlier the entire sections of Delhi-Ambala and Ambala- Chandigarh, as well as Kalka Shimla Hill Railways, had been covered with RailTel’s free WiFi service at railway stations.