Is Digital India faltering? Targets still in search of finding a connect

After two years, only 6 per cent of the target has been achieved with 306,000 hot spots in the country, according to the DigiAnalysis data, updated till August 2019

Two years after the government announced the National Digital Communication Policy in September 2018, its targets to make the “Digital India” vision a reality are faltering.
 

At the core of the plan was broadband connectivity to all through a combination of fibre and building a wifi hot spot eco system.

To achieve that, the policy targeted deploying over 5 million public wifi hot spots by 2020, and to double that by 2022.
 

After two years, only 6 per cent of the target has been achieved with 306,000 hot spots in the country, according to the DigiAnalysis data, updated till