Like public telephone booths, now Wi-Fi booths will be installed in paan and grocery stores, cabinet approval

Soon, public Wi-Fi booths will be introduced like public telephone booths across the country. An eco system called PM Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) will be developed for this work. On Wednesday, the Cabinet Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave its approval to PM-Wani. With this decision of the government, consumers of areas deprived of 4G network will also be able to enjoy high-speed internet. At the same time, people from rural and remote areas will get facilities like health, education and purchase of goods through internet.

Giving information about this decision of the government, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that this decision has been taken under Digital Empowerment. Soon this Pai-Vani will be started across the country. He said, for example, that like the earlier public telephone booths, people will be able to go to Paan shop and get Wi-Fi facility. The public data office (PDO), public data office aggregator (PDOA), app provider and central registry will be connected to the PM-Wani eco system. PDOs will be able to establish paid public Wi-Fi access points. The PDOA will keep the operations and accounts of the PDOs. App providers will develop an app with the help of which users will be able to use public Wi-Fi. The Central Registry will monitor all these which will be part of C-DOT.