Indian Railways converting railway stations into digital centres

Indian Railways have decided to provide free Wi-Fi at all railway stations except halt. So far, Wi-Fi facility has been provided at 6108 stations. State-wise list is appended. The provision of Wi-Fi at stations depends upon the availability of Infrastructure like Optical Fiber Cable & Other resources.

Indian Railways is committed to make all its railway stations and trains accessible for Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) as part of “Sugamya Bharat Mission”. Improvement/ augmentation of customer amenities including those for differently abled passengers (Divyangjan) at Railway stations is a continuous process.

Expenditure incurred for customer Amenities during each of the last three years & current year is as under:

Financial Year 2019-20	₹1903.10 cr.
Financial Year 2020-21	₹2582.82 cr.
Financial Year 2021-22	₹1995.77 cr.
Financial Year 2022-23	₹1766.37 cr. ( till Feb’23)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

APPENDIX

State-wise list of stations where Wi-Fi facility provided till date: –

S.N.	State/UT Name	No. of stations where Wi-Fi got installed under PPP
1	Andhra Pradesh	509
2	Arunachal Pradesh	3
3	Assam	220
4	Bihar	393
5	Chhattisgarh	119
6	Delhi	26
7	Goa	19
8	Gujarat	335
9	Haryana	140
10	Himachal Pradesh	24
11	Jammu & Kashmir	28
12	Jharkhand	215
13	Karnataka	335
14	Kerala	120
15	Madhya Pradesh	408
16	Maharashtra	566
17	Meghalaya	1
18	Mizoram	1
19	Nagaland	3
20	Odisha	234
21	Punjab	151
22	Rajasthan	463
23	Tamil Nadu	415
24	Telangana	47
25	Tripura	20
26	UT Chandigarh	1
27	UT Puducherry	3
28	Uttar Pradesh	768
29	Uttarakhand	31
30	West Bengal	510
	Total	6108

 

This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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