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Govt. plans to connect all panchayats through
broadband network
Thursday January 19, 2012 08:33:53 AM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The
government is planning to spend Rs.200 billion on a scheme to
connect all the panchayats in the country, Minister of State for
Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said Wednesday.
"The government is committed to deliver IT facility across the
country. In the next 24-30 months, the government is planning to
connect all 2.5 lakh panchayats through fibre optic broadband
network," Pilot told reporters here on the sidelines of foundation
stone laying ceremony for National Institute of Electronics and
Information Technology.
"The government has also cleared Rs.67 crore for state wide area
network," he said.
Pilot also hoped the Lokpal bill will be passed in parliament in
the forthcoming budget session.
The Lokpal bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on the first day of
the specially extended three-day session of parliament while the
Rajya Sabha debated the legislation but adjourned without voting
on it on the last day.
"Our government had cleared the Lokpal bill in the Lok Sabha. But
everybody knows that we do not have majority in the Rajya Sabha,"
the minister said.
He, however, said there was a need for more discussion on the
bill.
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