ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE FOR LAW & JUSTICE AND
CORPORATE AFFAIRS
(SHRI P. P. CHAUDHARY)
(a) to (d): Yes. A contract has been awarded to BSNL to set up Wide Area Network (WAN) to connect 2992 court complexes across the country. This includes 547 Court Complexes which do not have any internet connectivity at present. The total cost of the project is Rs.169 crore. The WAN project is part of the larger e-Courts Mission Mode Project implemented by the Government for Information and Communication Technology enablement of district and subordinate courts across the country, in association with the eCommittee of the Hon''ble Supreme Court of India.
BSNL submitted Circle wise Detailed Project Report (DPR) to Department of Justice. As per DPR, Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) needs to be laid at all the 2,992 project locations. So far, OFC has been laid at 2,135 court complexes. Implementation is monitored through an on-line WAN Implementation monitoring system which is updated on regular basis by the different Circles of BSNL.
So far, four district and subordinate Court Complexes in Punjab and one Court Complex in Rajasthan, has been connected on WAN, with minimum 10 Mbps bandwidth. State wise details are attached herewith at Annexure -I.
Annexure -I
Status of Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity
Sl.No. State/UT To be completed Completed Yet to be completed
1 Maharashtra 461 0 461
2 Rajasthan 327 1 326
3 Tamilnadu 260 0 260
4 Madhya Pradesh 205 0 205
5 Karnataka 198 0 198
6 Andhra Pradesh 190 0 190
7 Kerala 171 0 171
8 Uttar Pradesh 169 0 169
9 Orissa 156 0 156
10 North East States 141 0 141
11 Telangana 106 0 106
12 West Bengal 99 0 99
13 Chhattisgarh 90 0 90
14 Jammu and Kashmir 84 0 84
15 Bihar 78 0 78
16 Punjab 67 4 63
17 Haryana 53 0 53
18 Uttarakhand 52 0 52
19 Himachal Pradesh 43 0 43
20 Jharkhand 28 0 28
21 Delhi 6 0 6
22 Andaman & Nicobar 5 0 5
23 Dadra Nagar Haveli 1 0 1
24 Daman and Diu 2 0 2
Total 2992 5 2987
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