National Digital
Communications Policy
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DoT ( Department of Communications ) had released a
DRAFT for this policy on May 01
Here are the highlights :
* Investment target…………………………….. $ 100
Billion in digital communication by 2022
* Universal Broadband……………………….. 50 mbps
* Gram-Panchayat connectivity…………… 1 gbps
by 2020 / 10 gbps by 2022
* Connectivity to Key Development
Institutions………. 100 mbps
* Gram Panchayats to be covered………… 250,000 by
March 2019
* Public Wi Fi hot spots……………………….. 5
million by 2020 / 10 million by 2022
Wi Fi hot spots to be available for
the public in rural areas
and will also connect social
institutions
such as ,
# Police Stations
# Primary Health Centres
# Schools
# Post Offices
Source :
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji ,
Congratulations for your bold vision and your
meticulous , time-bound implementation , to turn India into a DIGITIZED INDIA
I believe The Telecom Commission will be meeting on 29 June to approve the draft of this policy
While approving the policy , I urge you to keep in
mind the suggestions that I made in my email dated 04 Oct 2016
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Extract from my E Mail :
In
my yesterday's blog
*
“ Slow
and Steady wins the Race / 03 Oct 2016
“ ,
and
in earlier blog,
*
“ If
Mohamed cannot Go to Mountain / 26 July
2015 “ ,
I
had suggested allowing 1.3 million schools of
India to lease out their premises at night ( 6 pm to 6 am ) , for private
parties to set up Call Centers ( BPOs
)
Also
enabling them with 100 mbps Internet
broadband connections ( of course , FREE )
Idea
was to reduce investment in setting up of BPOs by " round-the-clock "
utilization of , otherwise idle assets
That
logic could be extended to many similar under-utilized public assets such as :
# 2,25,000 Gram Panchayat offices (
all getting internet connection )
# 1,45,000 Post Offices ( also
getting internet connection under Payment Bank
scheme
)
#
Lakhs of Government offices ( Central / State / Municipal / PSUs etc )
#
Lakhs of branches of Public Sector Banks
22
June 2018
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