{"id":991901,"date":"2026-02-14T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991901"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:07:31","slug":"bharatnet-transforming-india-into-digitally-empowered-society-jyotiraditya-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/bharatnet-transforming-india-into-digitally-empowered-society-jyotiraditya-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"BharatNet transforming India into digitally empowered society: Jyotiraditya Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, Jyotiraditya Scindia, on Thursday said that BharatNet is playing a transformative role in turning India into a digitally empowered society by bridging the digital divide and expanding broadband access across rural areas. <\/p>\n<p>Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister described BharatNet as one of the world&#8217;s largest government-led connectivity programmes and said it reflects the government&#8217;s commitment to providing internet access to every citizen in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, Jyotiraditya Scindia, on Thursday said that BharatNet is playing a transformative role in turning India into a digitally empowered society by bridging the digital divide and expanding broadband access across rural areas. Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister described BharatNet as one of the world&#8217;s largest government-led connectivity programmes and said it reflects the government&#8217;s commitment to providing internet access to every citizen in the country.<\/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-991901","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\/991901","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=991901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}