Naidu’s Internet to All to cost 6000 Cr!

Tech Savvy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu’s pet project of proving faster internet connectivity to every household in the state at an affordable cost is pegged at 6000 Crore. The capital expenditure for laying the required infrastructure proposed in the project is ₹3,843 crore, while the operating cost is pegged at ₹2,140 crore over ten years.

The proposal aims at making available at least 10-15 Mbps broadband connections each to 12 million homes in the State at a price of about ₹150 per month and on-demand availability of 100 Mbps to one Gbps connection to every business enterprise.

The state government has sent the proposal to the Department of Telecommunication, under the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project. The state will have to lay optical fibre for 65000 kms costing 2500 Crore. If the state manages to get the center’s nod, the state government will get a shot in arm in this super project.