All Indian villages to get telephone service

All Indian villages to get telephone service

Central Government to launch new scheme to provide public telephone to 50000 new villages

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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NEW DELHI: The Central Government will shortly launch a scheme to provide public telephone facility to another 50,000 newly identified villages, thus providing public telephone service to all the villages in the country.

According to an official press release, the Department of Telecom is likely to sign agreements soon with the State owned telecom provider BSNL for this purpose.

These 50000 villages include new villages appearing in Census 2001, villages with population less than 100 and those left out earlier because of various reasons.

Village Public Telephones (VPTs) will come up in such uncovered villages with subsidy support from DoT's Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund, the release said.

It is expected that the installation of public telephones in all villages would be completed by the end of next year.

The government is already implementing a scheme to provide subsidized public telephone facility to 66822 uncovered villages under the Bharat Nirman programme. Out of these, 54700 villages have already been covered and the remaining villages are likely to be covered by the end of the current year.

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