The Bokaro Steel City railway station would soon get high-speed free Wi-Fi facility for passengers. This would make Bokaro the first railway station in Adra Division to have the facility, informed a railway official.
“RailTel will provide the facility free of cost to the passengers. At least 20 Wi-Fi equipments are scheduled to be installed at Bokaro railway station. The equipments installation work is going on war foot basis, passengers will access the facility form 25 December,” he added.
After Bokaro, Purulia Railway station in West Bengal and Bishnupur will get the free Wi-Fi facility, he said. Official sources informed, RailTel, a public sector undertaking of the Railway Ministry, is executing the project which was announced in the 2016 - 17 Railway Budget.
“The Railway Board had entrusted RailTel with the task of installation of Wi-Fi facility at 400 stations across the country in collaboration with Google, under the Digital India initiative of the Union government,” he informed.
One can get Internet access with speeds up to 1 Mbps for upload and 3 Mbps for download for the first 30 minutes, he said adding “later (after 30 minutes) the speed reduces to 64 Kbps, but, one could access railway-related sites through WiFi for information such as PNR, and train inquiry, throughout the day.”