New Delhi: Under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) it is envisaged to provide connectivity to over 25000+ colleges and 2000 polytechnics in the country and to 419 universities/deemed universities and institutions of national importance. Connectivity to the universities are provided on optical fibre and to the colleges are provided on copper cable. Up to another 400 universities fall under the ambit of National Knowledge Network (NKN) for connectivity. As on 29.2.2012, 391 universities and more than 15396 colleges in the country have been connected under NMEICT.
An amount of Rs. 1500 crore has been approved by the Government during the 11th Five Year Plan for the connectivity. An amount of Rs. 872,95,19,701/- has already been spent so far for providing connectivity to University/Colleges. By obtaining synergy between NMEICT and NKN, a lot of cost reduction and bandwidth enhancement has taken place for the universities.
This information was given by Dr. D. Purandeswari , Minister of State for Human Resource Development in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
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