Villages with no mobile network

New Delhi, April 12: As we are stepping to digitalization still many of the villages are not having the Mobile network.

Coming to details, Mobile network has not yet reached around 50,000 villages across the country, the govt said on Wednesday.

There are so many places in the Northeast, Naxal-hit states, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep where the mobile network has not reached yet, Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha said on Wednesday.

"We have never claimed that mobile network has reached all over the country. There are around 50,000 villages where the mobile network has not reached," he stressed.

Sinha said 'BharatNet' is being implemented for providing 100 Mbps broadband connectivity to all Gram Panchayats, approximately 2,50,000, in the country.