After two false starts, when the multi-crore BharatNet project had to be scrapped after Corruption allegations, Nadu finally inked a pact marking the take-off of the project touted as info-highway of the future.
On Wednesday, Tamil Nadu FibreNet Corporation Limited (TANFINET) signed the master service agreement for the implementation of the BharatNet Project in Tamil Nadu with System Integrators — M/s L&T (Package C), M/s ITI Ltd (Package D) and Third-Party Agency M/s BECIL — in the presence of T Mano Thangaraj, minister for information technology.
The Rs 1,815-crore project will cover 12,525 village panchayats in Tamil Nadu through optical fibre cable with high-speed bandwidth connectivity. Tamil Nadu FibreNet Corporation Limited (TANFINET), a special purpose vehicle, is implementing the project in Tamil Nadu at a sanctioned cost of Rs 1,815.3 crore. The project aims to provide 1 Gbps bandwidth connectivity to all village panchayats.