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BSNL To Digitally Empower Villages Under Adarsh Gram Yojna

State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is planning to offer Internet bandwidth to the Members of Parliament (MPs) to digitally empower people in their constituencies through the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna initiative under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme. According to ET report, in a letter dated July 25, 2016, BSNL chairman Anupam Shrivastava sought support from all the 543 parliamentarians individually to provision Wi-Fi services in their respective constituencies or villages to accelerate Digital India programme as part of government-to-government (G2G) initiative. “We have written to all...