Tag: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Free WiFi to all villages connected via Bharat Net till March 2020: Prasad

Currently, 48,000 villages connected under the BharatNet project have WiFi access

Current Affairs:WiFi administrations being given through BharatNet in towns crosswise over India will be for nothing out of pocket till March 2020, Telecom and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday.

“We have just associated 1.3 lakh gram panchayats through BharatNet optical fiber organize… Our objective is to take this to 2.5 lakh gram panchayats. To advance usage of BharatNet administrations, we will give WiFi free in all towns associated through BharatNet till March 2020,” the clergyman said.

Right now, 48,000 towns associated under the BharatNet venture have WiFi get to.

The priest said all normal help focuses (CSCs) will offer financial administrations. In that capacity, CSCs go about as passageways for conveyance of advanced administrations and the quantity of these focuses has expanded from around 60,000 of every 2014 to 3.60 lakh right now. Haryana itself has 11,000 CSCs offering a variety of 650 administrations.

CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd is actualizing the Digital Village activity in provincial and remote regions of the nation. Generally speaking, one lakh towns are set to be changed into advanced towns.

Gurawara town in the Rewari locale of Haryana has been created as an advanced town by CSC. The CSC unit there, worked by town level business person Sonu Bala, encourages access to government-to-resident administrations through the computerized seva entry.

CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd CEO Dinesh Tyagi stated, “The Digital Village plot can possibly genuinely change the town economy and diminish the advanced partition.”

A DigiGaon or computerized town was conceptualized as an associated town where residents can profit different e-administrations of the focal government, state governments and private players.

These towns are anticipated to be change operators, advancing provincial business enterprise and building country limits and jobs through network support and aggregate activity.

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Spectrum price reform in the works: Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Telecom operators, battling financial stress, have for long voiced their protest against high base price of 5G spectrum

Current Affairs:Introducing the yearly India Mobile Congress on Monday, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Center was thinking about “evaluating changes in the division”, perhaps indicating making the up and coming range sell off, particularly in the 5G band, progressively appealing to the business. Telecom administrators, fighting money related pressure, have for since quite a while ago voiced their dissent against the high base cost of 5G range. Most telcos are arranging not to offer for 5G except if the administration surveys the cost.

The three-day telecom summit, which got off to a moderate beginning, was set apart by the nonappearance of industry majors including Bharti’s Sunil Mittal and Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani. The two business opponents had shared the dais at the occasion a year ago and had knocked some people’s socks off with their differentiating remarks on the telecom division.

Prasad, while tending to partners, said the administration was making change strides in range evaluating too, cheering the business. Flagging a requirement for change, Vodafone Idea Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla stated, “We look for an empowering administrative condition with the goal that we can make the vital interest in this division.”

Bharti Enterprises Co-Vice Chairman and Managing Director Rakesh Bharti Mittal brought up that the business needed range at the correct cost. “We need enormous amounts of range at the correct cost as the costs set by Trai (Telecom Regulatory Authortiy of India) are multiple times higher than the worldwide costs,” Mittal said.

Mahendra Nahata, chief on board of Reliance Jio, additionally asked the administration to survey the 5G costs.

Trai had suggested a dish Indian base cost of Rs 492 crore for each MHz for 5G radiowaves. The controller anyway scaled down the save cost of the premium 700 MHz range, which had gone unsold in the 2016 sell-offs, by more than 40 percent to Rs 6,568 crore for each MHz from Rs 11,485 crore.

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Lok Sabha passes bill to scrap 58 laws mostly dating back to British era

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that efforts of the government were laudable but expressed concern that “sometimes this government passes a bill in haste and then repeals it”

Current Affairs:-Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to cancel 58 old laws which the administration said are a wellspring of bother to individuals.

Moving The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2019, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that after the BJP-drove government came to control “we have canceled 1,428 old and antiquated Acts”.

“Today we are (going to revoke) 58 old Acts,” the pastor said and noticed that from 1950 to 2004, just 1,929 old laws were canceled.

A large portion of these laws, he stated, go back to the British period.

Taking an interest in the exchange, Congress pioneer Shashi Tharoor said that endeavors of the administration were commendable however communicated worry that “occasionally this administration passes a bill in scurry and afterward annuls it”.

Requesting that the law on conjugal assault ought to be transformed, he said government ought to comprehend that it in not about sex but rather brutality.

He said that the activity by the administration was great yet it ought to tail it legitimately, and looked to comprehend what it was doing to instruct the police about the changed laws.

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Ravi Shankar Prasad warns social media firms on misuse of their platforms

He asked social media companies to maintain constitutional sanctity

Current Affair:-Association Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, in the wake of assuming responsibility at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Monday, asked web based life organizations to keep up sacred sacredness and prepare for abuse of their stages for demonstrations of fear based oppression and communalism. “While we as a whole regard the right to speak freely and articulation that is holy for us and part of the established assurance, however that is likewise subject to sensible limitation.”

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BJP slams Opposition for doubting EVMs, asks it to accept defeat with grace

A Commission official said the dissent notes and minority views would remain part of records of the poll panel

LokSabha Elections 2019:The BJP Tuesday censured resistance groups for scrutinizing the believability of Electronic Voting Machines and requested that they acknowledge their thrashing with elegance if the general population vote Prime Minister Narendra Modi to control once more.

Gathering pioneer and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad ripped into the restriction, saying EVMs were fine when its pioneers like Mamata Banerjee, N Chandrababu Naidu and Amarinder Singh win decisions and come to control, yet the machines turn questionable when it shows up Modi will return to control.

“EVM is great when Mamata Banerjee turned out to be West Bengal boss pastor twice and Amarinder Singh moved toward becoming Punjab boss priest. In the event that they win, EVM is great. In any case, when there is desire that we will win since individuals of this nation need Narendra Modi to be executive once more, at that point EVM is temperamental,” Ravi Shankar Prasad said

“The BJP denounces their (resistance) lead and will advise submissively to acknowledge their annihilation with effortlessness,” he said.

BJP representative G V L Narasimha Rao said resistance groups are urgently looking for a justification for their looming monstrous annihilation and their abrupt question is “obvious and unimaginary”.

“When they win, as they did in state surveys as of late, EVMs are reliable. Be that as it may, when they lose, they become flawed. Their specific trust in the EVMs is dishonest and naughty.

“Their obtrusive exertion at rubbishing the anticipated star BJP command is an affront to the Indian vote based system. The Opposition parties look extremely little not in their thrashing, yet in their condemnable direct,” he said.

Pioneers of upwards of 22 resistance groups met the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday and requested check of VVPAT slips of arbitrarily chose surveying stations before the including of the votes surveyed in the simply finished up Lok Sabha race starts on May 23.

They likewise requested that if any disparity is found amid VVPAT check, 100 percent tallying of the paper slips of VVPATs of all surveying stations in a specific Assembly portion ought to be done and contrasted and the electronic casting a ballot machine (EVM) results.

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