(RTTNews) - Sam Pitroda, adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations, told reporters on Thursday in Singapore that India would connect its villages through telephony and Internet by investing Rs.15,000 crore.
The investment would come from the Rs.24,000 crore accumulated from the Universal Service Fund (USF), he said.Pitroda said the government was getting Rs.6,000 crore annually by way of special charges being paid by private telecom operators in lieu of not their investing in rural India. The rural network would connect all Indian villages, as the country progressed with developing its infrastructure.
Pitroda addressed 100 delegates in Singapore at a lecture organized by the Institute of South Asia Studies of Singapore.
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