National Broadband Mission

In December, 2019, the government announced the National Broadband Mission which aims at providing broadband access in all villages in the country by 2022.

  • It intends to lay incremental 30 lakh route km of Optical Fiber Cable, while also increasing tower density from 0.42 to 1 tower per thousand of population by 2024.

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  • Transforming India into a Digitally Empowered Society: Digital connectivity is one of the key requisites for holistic growth across sectors in the country.Digital Connectivity is being given tremendous importance in transforming India into a digitally empowered society, which is also the vision of Digital India programme.
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