Gram Panchayat with Active ConnectivityAbout National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)
- It is an ambitious initiative to trigger a broadband revolution in rural areas.
- Is an information super-highway through the creation of a robust middle-mile infrastructure for reaching broadband connectivity to Gram Panchayats.
- Its aim is to connect all the 2,50, 000 Gram panchayats in the country and provide 100 Mbps connectivity to all gram panchayats (GPs) .
- NOFN project was funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) .
Vision
- Aims to establish, by 2017, a highly scalable network infrastructure.
- It is accessible on a non-discriminatory basis
- Aims to provide on demand, affordable broadband connectivity of 2 Mbps to 20 Mbps.
- Useful for all households and on demand capacity to all institutions.
- Set up to improve telecom services in rural and remote areas of the country.
- Objective is to facilitate the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-banking, Internet and other services to the rural India.
✍Examrace Team at Aug 24, 2021