As per Devusinh Chauhan, minister of state for communications, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has not awarded any work directly to CSC Wi-Fi Chaupal Services India under the BharatNet project.
The minister further said that CSC e-Governance Services India Limited (CSC-SPV) has been awarded the maintenance contract for the BharatNet Phase-1 project.
The work entails operation and maintenance of the incremental optical fibre cable network, first-line maintenance of the equipment and supporting infrastructure of BharatNet Phase-I.
Further, the provisioning of Wi-Fi services in about 110,000 gram panchayats (GPs) has also been assigned to CSC-SPV. It is also providing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections to five government Institutions per GP in around 77,000 GPs.
