Nearly two years after it was launched, the government has been able to activate only 132,000 hotspots as part of the Prime Minister’s WiFi Access Network Interface PM-WANI). The scheme is central to the government’s plans to create up to 10 million public WiFi hotspots in India by the end of this year.
However, lack of interest in many areas, primarily due to low financial incentives, has contributed to the hesitancy in adopting the scheme, say officials apprised of the situation.
On the other hand, the sluggish pace of migrating WiFi hotspots to the PMWANI network by state-run entities, such as Bharat Sanchar Nigam BSNL) and the Indian Railways, has also impeded progress, they add.
Aiming at massively expanding the public WiFi network in the country and providing low-cost mass digital connectivity to the underserved in rural areas and the urban poor, the flagship scheme was launched by the Department of Telecommunications DoT) in December 2020.
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