Netizens of State would be gifted with free internet in the New Year as Smart City Bhopal and Bharti Infratel Limited have inked a deal for providing free internet to the citizens; 149 smart poles worth Rs 690 crores have been installed in the first phase in State capital.
Official sources said that the state government has installed 149 smart poles and citizens of the state capital and people visiting state capital could access free internet.
In the state capital 400 smart poles have to be installed and 149 smart poles have been installed while installing remaining smart poles is under process.
A total of 100 hot spots with 1000 access points would provide 50 MB free per day to a citizen which could be accessed by pin generated through OTP.
In the second phase, citizens of Indore, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Satna, Sagar would get free internet facility under this project, the process has been completed.
For all smart city cities except smart city Bhopal, the tender has been awarded to Reliance Jio Telecom Company. Citizens will start getting free internet facility as soon as Jio signs MoU with smart city companies.
The agreement between Jio and smart city should be at the earliest and for this not only Kamal Nath led state government is insisting for agreement but also the CEO of the respective smart city cities are in constant touch to maintain communication with the concerned officials of Jio to make the process speedily.