Mobile connectivity in 55k villages by Mar 2019
The government plans to provide mobile connectivity in 55,669 villages by March 2019 in a phased manner, according to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Meanwhile, the government has taken up the BharatNet project to digitally connect all 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. Further, laying of optical fibres was completed in 48,199 gram panchayats as on April 25, 2016, the DoT said. 