National Broadband Mission Launched

The National Broadband Mission (NBM) was
launched by Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Communications, Law and
Justice and Electronics and Information Technology. The mission aims to fast
track the growth of digital communications infrastructure with strong emphasis
on three principles of universality, affordability and quality. It aims to
provide broadband access to all villages by 2022, laying of incremental 30
lakhs route km of Optical Fibre Cable and increase in tower density from 0.42
to 1.0 per thousand of population by
2024, significantly improve quality of services for mobile and internet,
develop a Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) to measure the availability of
digital communications infrastrucutre and conducive policy ecosystem within a
State/UT among others
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