Gumthala Garhu Village near Pehowa in Kurukshetra district in Haryana became the first Wifi hotspot village in Haryana circle. The service was inaugurated by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar from Chandigarh,under the bulk plan of BSNL for the state.

In Haryana, 6078 gram panchayats would be connected under this ambitious programme in a phased manner. Under phase one, work is in progress in 90 blocks and 90 per cent of it has already been completed. In phase two, work would commence in 24 blocks and it would be completed by the year end.

•  BSNL Haryana circle has a plan to have 238 Wifi hotspot locations with 1072 access points in the state and the project would be implemented to its full capacity during the current financial year.

• The coverage from each access point is about 100 meters. In this Wifi hotspot, data can be accessed by multiple users simultaneously.

• The Wifi hotspot facility at the village uses bandwidth of 10 mbps through BSNLs state-of-the-art network. Ten outdoor and one indoor access points have been installed to cover the village.

• The BSNL has already installed 32 access points at different locations in Haryana under its retail plan, where a data can be accessed by the customer on paid basis for which subscription plans are available in the denomination ranging from Rs 10 to Rs 599 with data volume from 100 MB to 10 GB and validity from one day to 30 days

• In Haryana, 6078 gram panchayats would be connected under this ambitious programme in a phased manner. Under phase one, work is in progress in 90 blocks and 90 per cent of it has already been completed. In phase two, work would commence in 24 blocks and it would be completed by the year end.