India has generational projects required to build country better post-Covid-19: Top UN official

The Indian government’s plan to connect over six lakh villages with optical fibre network is the kind of “generational projects” required to build the country better in a post-Covid world as it focuses on the inclusion and leapfrogging access to information and services, a top UN official has said.

On India’s 74th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a project to connect India’s over six lakh villages with an optical fibre network will be completed in the next 1,000 days.

“I welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement on fibre optic cable connectivity. It is precisely, in this crisis, that we need generational projects of that magnitude to not only be conceived but to actually be implemented and financed because they are the investment in the ‘Build Forward Better’