Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government has taken a historic decision in this direction to reach every village on the information highway. On August 15, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, the PM had announced that in 1000 days, in 6 lakh villages, India would bring optical fiber broadband through Net.
On Wednesday, a meeting of the Union Cabinet was held under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Many important decisions have been stamped in this meeting. After this meeting, Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar informed about the decisions taken in the cabinet in the press conference. Talking to the media, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that, the Union Cabinet has approved Rs 19 thousand crore for Bharat Net.
Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government has taken a historic decision in this direction to reach every village on the information highway.
On August 15, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, the PM had announced that in 1000 days, in 6 lakh villages, India would bring optical fiber broadband through Net. He said that today an important decision has been taken in this direction. We have reached 1.56 lakh gram panchayats. To connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats of the country with optical fiber. Today, we have approved Bharat Net through PPP in 16 states of the country at a total expenditure of Rs 29,432 crore.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar said that, in which the Viability Gap Funding of the Government of India will be Rs 19,041 crore. We are bringing this through PPP in 3,61,000 villages of the country which are in 16 states. We have made it 9 packages in 16 states. No one player will get more than 4 packages.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar while talking to the media said, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced a big decision 2 days ago that those who are facing problems due to Kovid. He had described all such sectors as a blueprint of assistance of Rs 6,28,000 crore. The cabinet has approved it today.
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