{"id":1048086,"date":"2026-11-09T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048086"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:30:39","slug":"telangana-gets-rs-3185-crore-central-aid-to-upgrade-rural-broadband-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/telangana-gets-rs-3185-crore-central-aid-to-upgrade-rural-broadband-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana gets Rs 3,185 crore central aid to upgrade rural broadband network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Telangana has secured Rs 3,185 crore in financial support from the Centre to upgrade and expand its rural broadband network, with the amended BharatNet programme set to cover 12,769 gram panchayats across the state. <\/p>\n<p>An agreement for implementing the Amended BharatNet Programme (ABP) under the state-led model was signed between the Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN), Department of Telecommunications, and the state government in New Delhi on Friday. The agreement involves the Telangana Rural Internet Infrastructure Corporation Ltd (TRIICL), Telangana Fiber Grid Corporation Ltd (T-Fiber) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Telangana has secured Rs 3,185 crore in financial support from the Centre to upgrade and expand its rural broadband network, with the amended BharatNet programme set to cover 12,769 gram panchayats across the state. An agreement for implementing the Amended BharatNet Programme (ABP) under the state-led model was signed between the Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN), Department of Telecommunications, and the state government in New Delhi on Friday. The agreement involves the Telangana Rural Internet Infrastructure Corporation Ltd (TRIICL), Telangana Fiber Grid Corporation Ltd (T-Fiber) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048086","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048090,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048086\/revisions\/1048090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}