Union Minister Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia says BharatNet is transforming India into a digitally empowered society

• BharatNet is one of the world's largest government-led rural broadband connectivity programmes, aimed at providing high-speed optical fibre connectivity to all Gram Panchayats (GPs) in India.
• Implemented under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications, funded via the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) (now Digital Bharat Nidhi).
• Examinable as a flagship Digital India pillar — intersects GS-II (governance, welfare), GS-III (infra, IT), and the broader National Broadband Mission (NBM) 2.0 roadmap to 2030.