the number of villages proposed to be covered by the public telephone facility during the Ninth Five Year Plan, State-wise?
the number of villages proposed to be covered by the public telephone facility during the Ninth Five Year Plan, State-wise?
Minister of State for Communications
(Shri Tapan Sikdar)
To achieve the objective of covering all the villages in the country by March, 2002, a target to cover 339,659 villages was fixed for the 9th Plan. Details are given in the enclosed Annex.
STATEMENT IN RESPECT OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3569.
ANNEX
Sl. State Total No.of Villages proposed to be covered by the No. Villages public telephone facility during the Ninth Five Year Plan
1 Andaman & Nicobar 282 171 2 Andhra Pradesh 29,460 8,188 3 Assam 22,224 14,360 4 Bihar 79,208 63,639 5 Gujarat 18,125 4,202 6 Haryana 6,850 340 7 Himachal Pradesh 16,997 11,922 8 Jammu & Kashmir 6,764 4,711 9 Karnataka 27,066 9,585 10 Kerala 1,530 - 11 Madhya Pradesh 71,526 36,159 12 Maharashtra 42,060 15,935 13 Goa 407 82 14 Arunachal 3,599 3,092 15 Manipur 2,394 1,917 16 Meghalaya 5,629 4,977 17 Mizoram 770 219 18 Nagaland 1,192 720 19 Tripura 862 385 20 Orissa 46,989 30,816 21 Punjab 12,687 680 22 Rajasthan 38,634 21,309 23 Tamil Nadu 17,991 953 24 Uttar Pradesh 115,249 77,898 25 West Bengal 38,378 27,171 26 Sikkim 427 228 27 Delhi 191 - Total 607,491 339,659