New Delhi, April 12 (PTI): Mobile network has not yet reached around 50,000 villages across the country, the government said on Wednesday.
There are many locations in the Northeast, Naxal-hit states, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep where mobile network has not reached yet, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said in Lok Sabha.
The Minister said he has written to all states to inform his Ministry how many of the villages in their state the mobile network has not reached.Sinha said an ambitious project ‘BharatNet’ is being implemented for providing 100 mbps broadband connectivity to all Gram Panchayats, approximately 2,50,000, in the country.
The phase-I to connect 1,00,000 GPs is being implemented currently, he said.
