The Uttar Pradesh government has announced that it will provide free Wi-Fi facility to the youth of the state from August 15, 2021.
Under this initiative, people will be able to avail free Wi-Fi facility across all 75 districts, offices, municipal councils, 17 municipal corporations and 217 public places in the state.
To this end, the state authorities have been instructed to provide the facility at major public places. According to industry sources, the facility will be available at two places in major cities and at one place in small cities. Under this scheme the state government will provide this facility in cities with municipal corporations like Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Aligarh, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Jhansi, Bareilly, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Gorakhpur, Ayodhya, Meerut, Shahjahanpur, Ghaziabad, Mathura-Vrindavan and Firozabad as well as municipal council cities.
Further, the government has reportedly instructed municipal commissioners and executive officers that smart city projects or urban bodies will bear the cost of providing this service.
