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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

The BharatNet programme missed its deadlines. While it was supposed to connect 150,000 villages last year, it has managed to connect around125,000 village blocks to date
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Also many of the policy goals are stuck because of differences between the DoT and Trai

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
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