With the spread of broadband connectivity in villages of Bihar, online service delivery and various other Govt. initiatives can be availed by citizens on click of a button.
September 20, 2020
CSC, an SPV under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) through its Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs) has undertaken the task of extending optical fiber connectivity to villages from gram panchayats or village blocks across India under BharatNet initiative.
CSC-SPV has aimed to provide Fiber To The Home (FTTH) broadband internet connectivity to 45,945 villages of nearly 8900 Gram panchayats, where Wi-Fi and FTTH through BharatNet is functional.
In July 2019, CSC-SPV was given the task of operation and maintenance of an optical fiber network laid under BharatNet phase-1. After that in January 2020, FTTH connectivity was also added to five government institutions. CSC VLEs achieved great output in phase-1, where in 5889 gram panchayats they have more than 45000 subscribers with more than 20000 rural households and government institutions who have access to broadband internet.
