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Big Telecom always runs behind big money. Telecom companies are not
interested to provide voice or data services in rural areas due to various reasons. That is
the reason the Government of India brought in the Universal Service Obligation Fund
(USOF) to cross subsidize rural service providers to cover the losses they make.
Reliance Jio was the first company to get pan India license to roll out 4G services
and they choose 5000 towns in India covering 90% of the urban population and some
215,000 villages. Jio acquired pan-India airwaves in the 2300 MHz band four years ago
Submitted By: - Nagarajan M. IAS
E-mail: mnagarajanias@gmail.com
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Benefits of getting Broadband to Rural areas:It will help us to build up e-Democracy. It can help us to make all Government
services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery
outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency & reliability of such services at affordable
costs to realize the basic needs of the common man. It will help us to potentiate Mission
Mode Projects at the Center, State and integrated service levels through strengthening of
e-Governance and m-Governance.
Tele OPD can be run where human resources are not available.
o m-Health-
Real time data entry at village level for various services given
e-Education project
o ICT based teaching practices for government officers and other staff.
o Also education of community at Gram Panchayat level.
o Also various courses or short term refresher online training can be arranged
for government staff.
Livelihood Promotion
o Internet browsing centre (cyber cafe) can be established in all the connected
villages by the local youth. This will promote the livelihood of tribal
population.
o All the schools can be connected with each other and transfer of good teaching
practices with each other.
o Gram Panchayat can be made a Hot-Spot to serve internet/Wi-Fi services to
area covered by it. And there will be opportunities to establish a small
business model by which a Gram Panchayat will be earn revenue.
o Integration of all the departments under one platform - Digitalgov
o Video conferencing with every department from each level.
o Provision of internet services in remote and tribal area.
Business Model:
The Khedbrahma Model is a viable and sustainable way to connect rural areas
to internet highway. The project is called Digital Setu meaning digital bridge.
Submitted By: - Nagarajan M. IAS
E-mail: mnagarajanias@gmail.com
Each Digital Setu Service Provider invests INR 60,000/- to 1, 50,000/- as per
area of the village.
The average revenue expected (in remote areas) is INR 400 * 150 customers =
INR 60,000/-. 10% revenue share to DSSP = INR 6,000 per month. The
investment will be recouped in 10 months and rest of the months will be in
profit. The revenue is likely to be much higher in Rurban areas and bigger
villages.
Future Plans
District Panchayat Sabarkantha plans to make District Sabarkantha Indias First
100% Wi-Fi enabled district.
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