New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his Independence Day 2020 speech on Saturday, announced over 6 lakh villages of India will be connected through high-speed internet via optical fibres in the next few years. He said the government vows to finish the task in the next 1,000 days. “This goal will be met in the coming thousand days. In the coming 1,000 days, every village in the country will be connected with optical fibre,” the PM said.
We have decided to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fibres within 1,000 days: PM Modi
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The PM said before 2014, only five dozen panchayats in the country were connected with optical fibre but right now around 1.5 lakh of them have been connected with high-speed optical fibre internet. “In the last five years, 1.5 lakh gram panchayats in the country have been connected with optical fiber,” he said