PNS | Hyderabad
Six years on the T-Fibre project to provide high-speed Internet service to every household has not been executed. The project to provide high-speed Internet across the state was expected to be completed by 2019-end, but it has not been completed.
As per a recent update, end-to-end service-ready connections are available only in 12 of the 33 TS districts.“The T-Fibre project is going on. It was expected to be completed earlier. We have so far provided end-to-end service-ready connections in 12 districts. Four more districts will be ready by June-end and that would be half of Telangana.
Commercial connections must be got ready,” Industries Minister KTR said recently. A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) named the Telangana Fibre Grid Corporation Limited (T-Fibre) was incorporated on August 1, 2017, to implement the Telangana Fibre Grid project and to run it.
Surveillance cameras installed at mandal police stations and ward offices will be monitored at the police HQ through the T-Fibre network. The Telangana State Data Centre (SDC) will be powered with world-class cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure through T-fibre.
Sources said that it might take another three years to achieve 90 per cent connectivity. The government hopes to connect a minimum of 10 lakh homes before the end of 2023.
The project was launched in 2017 and the pilot project started in Maheshwaram mandal.
The fibre optic line was laid along with the drinking water project, Mission Bhagiratha. The total cost of the T-Fibre project is Rs 3,800 crore.
The Telangana government established the T-Fibre project to ensure that people in all parts of the state have reliable, high-speed Internet. The public will be able to access digital services and content easily through T-Fibre.
The project will also ensure that government departments and other entities have access to secure digital infrastructure that can deliver services to the public with greater reliability.
The Infrastructure and Communications Wing maintains the State Data Centre and its branches to provide seamless services across the state.
The ultimate goal of the project is to digitally empower every citizen and ensure that it reaches the government across geographical distances.
