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Government completes national optical fiber network roll out in 20,000 panchayats

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Government has completed the roll out of national optical fiber network (NOFN) in 20,000 village panchayats to provide high speed broadband connectivity.
It had set target to roll out the network across all the 2.5 lakh VPs by the end of 2016.
“The scale of implementation under new government has been 375 percent compared to previous regime. Under new regime 1,600km of fiber have been laid out. At present, work has been completed in 20,000 VPs and another 10,000 are almost already,” a DoT official said.
The NOFN project was conceived in 2011 and deadline to connect all panchayats was fixed by end of 2013 then deferred to September 2015 by UPA government. The BJP-led government re-examined status and set target to complete roll out in 50,000 VPs by March 31, 2015, another 1 lakh by March 2016 and rest of the VPs by end of 2016.
“There is no change in our target to complete NOFN roll out by 2016,” the official said.
NDA Government had set up a committee under former IT Secretary J Satyanarayana to analyze the present structure of NOFN. The committee has submitted its report to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad with suggestion to give access of various networks being built by government to people interested in it, including private companies.

Source: eGovWatch: Government completes NOFN roll out in 20,000 panchayats
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