As many as 200 villages in Tamil Nadu will get the
digital network service of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) as a part
of the Prime Minister’s vision to bring 2.5-lakh panchayats under the
National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN), said Minister for Communication
and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad here on Monday.
The
NOFN was part of a programme to empower people to connect through
Digital India Programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he
told reporters after garlanding the statue of Swami Vivekananda at the
Vivekananda Mandapam here on the occasion of his 152nd birth
anniversary.
The pace of digitisation would give a
boost to the IT industry. With a view to establishing Business
Processing Outsourcing (BPO) units in smaller towns, a policy initiative
to provide incentives for the promoters was on the anvil. A policy in
this regard would soon be out, he said. The government had initiated a
plan to strengthen the Postal Department in a big way, he added.
Later,
Mr. Prasad inaugurated a “Walk of Hope” by Sri M, director, Satsangh
Foundation at Manav Ektha Maidan (0 point of NH 47 at Kanyakumari) from
Kanyakumari to Kashmir for religious harmony and peace. Minister of
State for Shipping and Highways Pon. Radhakrishnan and Minister for
Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapathi Raju were present.
It’s part of Modi’s vision to bring 2.5-lakh panchayats under the National Optical Fibre Network: Union Minister
