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\nNEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office is expected to receive a detailed presentation Thursday on the progress of the much-delayed BharatNet<\/a> project, earlier called the Bharat Broadband<\/a> Network, which is critical to the government’s ambitious Digital India programme, a person familiar with the matter said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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\n\t \n\t“There will be a detailed project presentation with the PMO<\/a> officials who will review the BharatNet initiative tomorrow (Thursday),” the official, who is aware of the matter, said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n\tBharatNet is the Centre’s ambitious program that seeks to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats or village blocks with optic-fibre-based network to offer Internet services in rural and remote India that could facilitate an access to an array of government-to-citizen services.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n\tPlagued with challenges such as the right of way (RoW), the initiative conceived in 2011 by UPA-II government, has been marred by delays. Approved by the Cabinet on October 2011, the mega initiative first missed the initial December 2013 completion deadline and later it was revised to December 2016. Under the revised timeline, BharatNet aims to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats by December 2018, with 1 lakh panchayats to be completed by March 2017.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n\tThe project has also seen a significant cost overrun of almost 75% from the initial estimate of Rs 20,000 crore and a panel recently recommended Rs 72,000 crore overall spend and inclusion of private players and active role of states in its deployment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n\tTill May this year, only 20% of the original project has been delivered that include laying of 1,11,726 kilometers of fibre out of more than 7 lakh km, while the OFC pipe has been laid to close to 1,39,582 kilometres taking fibre to nearly 50,000 village blocks.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n\tThe project is funded by the USOF, and is being executed by three public sector companies— BSNL<\/a>, Power Grid Corporation and RailTel<\/a> in a 70:15:15 ratio.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":53303451,"title":"Job creation in labour-intensive, export-oriented sectors down","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/job-creation-in-labour-intensive-export-oriented-sectors-down\/53303451","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"telecomnews"}],"related_content":[],"msid":53304692,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"PMO to review BhartNet progress","synopsis":"BharatNet is the Centre\u2019s ambitious program that seeks to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats or village blocks with optic-fibre-based network to offer Internet services in rural and remote India that could facilitate an access to an array of government-to-citizen services.","titleseo":"telecomnews\/pmo-to-review-bhartnet-progress","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[{"author_name":"Muntazir Abbas","author_link":"\/author\/479234376\/muntazir-abbas","author_image":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/authorthumb\/479234376.cms?width=100&height=100","author_additional":{"thumbsize":true,"msid":479234376,"author_name":"Muntazir Abbas","author_seo_name":"muntazir-abbas","designation":"Editor","agency":false}}],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"ETTelecom","artdate":"2016-07-20 19:27:18","lastupd":"2016-07-21 12:46:57","breadcrumbTags":["Broadband","policy","BSNL","PMO","PowerGrid","Sanjay Singh","RailTel","NOFN","BharatNet"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"telecomnews\/pmo-to-review-bhartnet-progress"}}" data-authors="[" muntazir abbas"]" data-category-name="" data-category_id="" data-date="2016-07-20" data-index="article_1">
BharatNet是该中心的雄心勃勃的计划,旨在连接2.5十万的克panchayats或村块optic-fibre-based网络提供互联网服务在印度农村和偏远,可能促进government-to-citizen服务的访问数组。 “将会有一个详细的项目演示的PMO官员们将审查BharatNet倡议明天(星期四)”,官员意识到,说。 BharatNet是该中心的雄心勃勃的计划,旨在连接2.5多数革兰氏panchayats或村块optic-fibre-based网络提供互联网服务在印度农村和偏远,可能促进government-to-citizen服务的访问数组。 困扰的挑战,如正确的方式(行),计划于2011年构思UPA-II政府,一直受到延误。内阁批准2011年10月,大型项目第一次错过了最初的2013年12月完成期限,后来修正为2016年12月。根据修改后的时间表,2.5 BharatNet旨在连接多数革兰氏“村务委员会”,2018年12月,1十万的“村务委员会”将在2017年3月完成。 项目也出现了显著的成本超支的近75%的初始估计Rs 20000卢比最近建议和面板Rs 72000卢比的总体花费和包含私人的州部署球员和积极作用。 直到今年5月,只有20%的原始项目已经交付,包括铺设的1,11726超过7公里的纤维十万的公里,而离岸金融中心管已接近1,39582公里采取纤维近50000个村。 项目由USOF,被三个公共部门企业——执行BSNL电网公司和RailTel在70:15:15比率。
\n\tThe presentation will be given by BharatNet chairman and USO (Universal Service Obligation) fund administrator Sanjay Singh, followed by a board meeting to assess the progress which is running way behind schedule and has overshot initial budget estimates.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nPMO审查BhartNet进步
新德里:总理办公室预计将收到详细的陈述周四不完善的的进步BharatNet项目,叫做早些时候巴拉特宽带网络,这是至关重要的政府的雄心勃勃的印度数字计划,一个知情人士说。
表示将给予USO BharatNet董事长兼(普遍服务义务)基金管理人桑杰辛格,紧随其后的是一个董事会会议来评估方式落后于计划的进展,并超过了最初的预算估计。
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