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Central sector telecom projects may get higher funds support in Budget
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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Jun, 2019
The general Budget in July is likely to give a fillip to the
government's telecom projects to make the Prime Minister's vision of
Digital India a success. Under the roadmap, the Department of Telecom's
(DoT) Central sector projects will be allocated more funds.
The
government has set a target of creating 1 lakh digital villages in the
next five years with an aim to foster financial inclusion. Digital
villages are an integral scheme linked with the Digital India
initiative, which aims to provide a platform for availability of
services such as telemedicine, tele-education, LED street lighting, wifi
and skill development to the people at the gram panchayat level across
the country.
Official sources said the department has sought
higher allocations in central sector projects as well own projects. The
Central sector schemes could see a minimum 15 per cent rise from the Rs
13,400 crore allocated in the interim Budget.
The Central sector
projects are BharatNet to provide affordable broadband services to
citizens and institutions in rural areas where the financial outlay was
Rs 8,000 crore in last fiscal.
Mobile Connectivity in Left Wing
Extremism (LWE) affected areas; augmentation, creation and management
of OFC Network in NE I & NE II; provision of 25,000 the block-level
telephone exchanges in rural areas; and Comprehensive Telecom
Development Plan (CTDP) for Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep
Islands form part of the wholly Centrally funded schemes.
In
the interim Budget, the total allocation was Rs 13,400 crore towards
these Central sector schemes, up from Rs 10,000 crore in 2018 Budget.
The major part of this funding at Rs 4,725 crore was for the defence
spectrum network under the optical fibre cable based network for defence
services. The DoT projects were allocated Rs 326 crore.
In
the Budget 2018, Government allocated Rs 10,000 cr to boost telecom
infrastructure. The then finance minister Arun Jaitley had announced Rs
10,000-crore outlay for the 2018-19 fiscal on expansion of telecom
infrastructure under various government projects in the country as in
for creation and augmentation of this telecom infrastructure.
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