The Minister for Communications & IT Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that seven and half lakh kilometres of cable is proposed to be laid over next three and half years to provide broadband in every village of the country. Interacting with a few contributors of ideas for Digital India project in New Delhi last evening, he said this project aims at digital empowerment of people and will be a game changer. The minister pointed out that there is a need to sensitise people about the power of technology. He said various certificates as needed by poor people can be reached to them in their villages itself. Various other practical benefits will also be available to them through internet which might be global but will have to be locally of benefit. He said, India now has about 30 crore internet users and is crossing the number of internet users even in the US which is the second largest internet users in the world now after China.
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