Wi-Fi based Internet Facility has been provided at 5957 railway stations in the country till now.

RailTel has submitted a proposal to DoT for leveraging its network in rural India and its collaborative broadband services model to provide PM Wani enabled community Wi-Fi services.

RailTel has high capacity backbone like 10 Giga bits per second at Railway stations where OFC has been commissioned.

Implementation time will be based on acceptance of proposal & its terms & conditions by DOT.

This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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