In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Communications, Education and Electronics and Information Technology, Sanjay Dhotre said that so far, a total number of 151,431 gram panchayats (GPs) including block headquarters (HQs) have been made service ready under the BharatNet project.
Thus, aimed at connecting 250,000 GPs, BharatNet still lags with as many as 98,569 GPs yet to be made service ready.
Further, the deadline to connect all the GPs is also set to be extended from the previous deadline of August 2021.
