{"id":1025079,"date":"2026-07-31T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025079"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:59:02","slug":"amended-bharatnet-programme-50000-villages-in-odisha-to-get-optical-fibre-connectivity-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/amended-bharatnet-programme-50000-villages-in-odisha-to-get-optical-fibre-connectivity-in-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Amended BharatNet Programme: 50,000 villages in Odisha to get optical fibre connectivity in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar: Around 50,000 villages in Odisha will be connected through optical fibre over the next three years under the Amended BharatNet Programme at an investment of \u20b93,384 crore, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>A tripartite agreement for implementation of the programme was signed on Wednesday among the state Electronics and IT Department, Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), they said. <\/p>\n<p>Electronics and IT Minister Mukesh Mahaling said around 50,000 villages under 6,799 gram panchayats would receive optical fibre connectivity, with the project expected to be completed over the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar: Around 50,000 villages in Odisha will be connected through optical fibre over the next three years under the Amended BharatNet Programme at an investment of \u20b93,384 crore, officials said. A tripartite agreement for implementation of the programme was signed on Wednesday among the state Electronics and IT Department, Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), they said. Electronics and IT Minister Mukesh Mahaling said around 50,000 villages under 6,799 gram panchayats would receive optical fibre connectivity, with the project expected to be completed over the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025080,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025079\/revisions\/1025080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}