{"id":8156,"date":"2019-12-14T05:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T00:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2019-12-14T05:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T00:17:51","slug":"provision-of-free-wi-fi-at-railway-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=8156","title":{"rendered":"Provision of Free Wi-Fi at Railway Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"
Provision of Free Wi-Fi at Railway Stations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Wi-Fi services are proposed to be provided at 6471 stations (i.e. all stations other than F category halt stations) over Indian Railways. 5816 stations are targeted to be provided with Wi-Fi services by March, 2020. Balance 655 stations are targeted to be provided with Wi-Fi services by March, 2021. So far this facility has been provided at 5491 stations upto 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0December, 2019.<\/p>\n

RailTel has signed agreement\/MoU for extending Wi-Fi services with the following agencies:<\/p>\n

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  1. M\/s. Mahataa Information India Pvt. Ltd. (MIIPL) (a group company of M\/s. Google).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. M\/s Power Grid Corporation of India Limited.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Department of Telecom under Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. M\/s Tata Trusts and Vijyavahini Charitable Foundation and Indian Railways.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          During the month of October, 2019, a total of 15145433 (1.51 crores) unique users logged into free Wi-Fi services provided at Railway Stations of Indian Railways.<\/p>\n

          So far funds of Rs. 27.77 crores, have been sanctioned by DoT under Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) for the provision of Wi-Fi services at 200 Nos. Railway stations in rural areas. Balance stations have been completed in collaboration with other organizations under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)\/Charity funding and under partnership with Railways.<\/p>\n

          This information was given by the Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Provision of Free Wi-Fi at Railway Stations Wi-Fi services are proposed to be provided at 6471 stations (i.e. all stations other than F category halt stations) over Indian Railways. 5816 stations are targeted to be provided with Wi-Fi services by March, 2020. Balance 655 stations are targeted to be provided with Wi-Fi services by March, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}