Railway broadband to touch 500,000 homes in Digital India within 2 years

Railway broadband reaches 500,000 households through its Railwire network. In the next two years the network is providing a host of services at the block level. Indian Railways is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and operated by the Government of India (GoI) through the Ministry of Railways.

Key Points about Indian Railways

The Broadband Highway will involve a three-layer network

1. State capitals to district headquarters
2. District to sub-divisional and
3. Gram panchayats

This three-layer network of the Broadband Highway will be joined to the National Optic Fiber Network (NOFN).

• Railway has also starts to hit the local cable operators focusing on pure-play broadband and VPN services, content and application-driven network.
• Railway seeks to cover 36,000 Gram Panchayats and the broadband services include emails, online newspapers, online passport application, tele-medicine, examination results and net surfing for students with a minimum 2Mbps speed in Eastern India alone,.
• The Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) conducted a knowledge forum with the theme ‘Digital Now – What Next’ that is 10th in a series
• India optic fiber network covers 4,400-plus railway stations across 44,300 km in Railway.
• Railways were first introduced to India in the year 1853 fromMumbai to Thane
• Indian Railways is the world’sseventh largest commercial or utility employer
• Railways are providing a fully computerized system like online ticket booking, ticket cancel, reservations etc.

Keys

• Indian Railway Minister– Suresh Prabhu
• Headquarter– New Delhi