Bihar: Government to provide high-speed internet in villages
Madan Kumar | TNN | Updated: Feb 2, 2019, 22:22 IST
Representative image.PATNA: Bihar Government has planned to establish five hotspots in each gram-panchayat to provide facilities of high-speed internet in each village and habitation so that people could easily get benefit of different digital services at their doorstep and don’t have to wander to different government offices located either at block headquarters or at district towns.
Addressing an event at Gyan Bhavan here after CM Nitish Kumar laid the foundation stones for expansion of the Software Technology Park of India (STPI)’s incubation centre at Patna, Bihar’s deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi also said that of the five hotspots in each panchayat, three would be established at government buildings like school and hospital, one at Panchayat Bhavan and one at the busiest place in the panchayat.
Modi said optical fibres had already been laid in altogether 6,105 panchayats in the state to provide high-speed broadband internet services. In the second phase, the optical fibres would be laid in the rest 2,692 panchayats in 180 blocks at the cost of Rs 700 crore. The work of optical fibre laying in all panchayats would be completed by June 2019.
The deputy CM also said the services of high speed internet were being provided by opening common service centres (CSCs) in 700 Panchayat Bhavans across the state. The CSC would start functioning in another 5,200 Panchayat Bhavans in the next two months. “Each CSC is being provided Rs 3,000 per month for upkeep of optical fibre and Rs 500 per month for electricity,” Modi said adding a budgetary provision of Rs 43 crore has been made for this work.
He also said that all 38 districts, 101 sub-divisions, 534 block offices were being interlinked trough MPLS network under the Bihar State Wide Area Network (BISWAN) project at the cost of Rs 473 crore.
“Besides it, a State Data Centre is being established at the cost of Rs 351 crore, and for protection of our data from outside cyber attack, a disaster recovery centre is being established at a cost of Rs 30 crore,” Modi said amidst clapping from the audience.
The deputy CM also revealed that the state government has provided free-of-cost three-acres prime land to the STPI in Patna for expansion of its incubation centre. Out of the total expansion cost of Rs 53 crore, Bihar government is providing its matching share of RS 26 crore. He said, a G Plus Six building would be built at the STPI centre in Pataliputra Industrial area in next 2 years.
He said the state government has also provided 58 acres of land to the centre for setting up Information Technology Park in Bihta and two-acre each land for setting up the STPI centres at Darbhanga and Bhagalpur.
Addressing the event, Nitish urged the union electronics and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to use his office to ensure big ticket investments in hardware sector in Bihar.
“Big companies in hardware sector can come to Bihar at your request. Take some initiatives so that mobile manufacturing companies come to the state,” Nitish told Prasad.
Addressing an event at Gyan Bhavan here after CM Nitish Kumar laid the foundation stones for expansion of the Software Technology Park of India (STPI)’s incubation centre at Patna, Bihar’s deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi also said that of the five hotspots in each panchayat, three would be established at government buildings like school and hospital, one at Panchayat Bhavan and one at the busiest place in the panchayat.
Modi said optical fibres had already been laid in altogether 6,105 panchayats in the state to provide high-speed broadband internet services. In the second phase, the optical fibres would be laid in the rest 2,692 panchayats in 180 blocks at the cost of Rs 700 crore. The work of optical fibre laying in all panchayats would be completed by June 2019.
The deputy CM also said the services of high speed internet were being provided by opening common service centres (CSCs) in 700 Panchayat Bhavans across the state. The CSC would start functioning in another 5,200 Panchayat Bhavans in the next two months. “Each CSC is being provided Rs 3,000 per month for upkeep of optical fibre and Rs 500 per month for electricity,” Modi said adding a budgetary provision of Rs 43 crore has been made for this work.
He also said that all 38 districts, 101 sub-divisions, 534 block offices were being interlinked trough MPLS network under the Bihar State Wide Area Network (BISWAN) project at the cost of Rs 473 crore.
“Besides it, a State Data Centre is being established at the cost of Rs 351 crore, and for protection of our data from outside cyber attack, a disaster recovery centre is being established at a cost of Rs 30 crore,” Modi said amidst clapping from the audience.
The deputy CM also revealed that the state government has provided free-of-cost three-acres prime land to the STPI in Patna for expansion of its incubation centre. Out of the total expansion cost of Rs 53 crore, Bihar government is providing its matching share of RS 26 crore. He said, a G Plus Six building would be built at the STPI centre in Pataliputra Industrial area in next 2 years.
He said the state government has also provided 58 acres of land to the centre for setting up Information Technology Park in Bihta and two-acre each land for setting up the STPI centres at Darbhanga and Bhagalpur.
Addressing the event, Nitish urged the union electronics and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to use his office to ensure big ticket investments in hardware sector in Bihar.
“Big companies in hardware sector can come to Bihar at your request. Take some initiatives so that mobile manufacturing companies come to the state,” Nitish told Prasad.
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