Govt to float tender for Wi-Fi service in panchayats by 2019

The Department of Telecom is likely to float tender in about a week for rolling out Wi-Fi services in all the village panchayats by 2019 with an outlay of around Rs 3,700 crore, an official source said.

The government expects to start broadband services with about 1,000 megabit per second or 1 Gbps across 1 lakh gram panchayats by the end of this year under the project.

"The tender details will be finalised this week. It will be issued immediately. The plan is to roll out Wi-Fi service in 1 lakh gram panchayats (GPs) in a year and in the rest by 2019," a senior DoT officer who did not wished to be named told

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