37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
The committee which was set up by PM Modi to oversee and examine the Digital India vision has reported that as of now, 20,000 villages have been connected via broadband under National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) plan. At the same time, it has been decided that NOFN would be renamed as BharatNet.
Started in 2011, NOFN (now BharatNet) had been allocated a budget of Rs 20,000 crore with a vision to connect 2,50,000 villages with broadband, within 2 years.
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