MeitY deliberates roadmap to accelerate internet access in underserved and uncovered regions

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has organized a workshop titled “Connecting all Indians” to make India one of the largest connected countries of the world. The workshop invited both public and private stakeholders including largest internet service providers in the country – Jio, Airtel, officials from MeitY and the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, to discuss a roadmap to accelerate internet access in currently underserved and uncovered villages and towns across the country.

Keeping in view the vision of the Prime Minister, world’s largest fiber based rural broadband connectivity project BharatNet was also reviewed during the workshop. The Workshop deliberated upon strategies to immediately cover left out geographies and regions/villages