Delhi govt's free Wi-Fi project still in limbo
30 April 2018 5:21 AM IST
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party government's ambitious project to provide free Wi-Fi services to Delhi residents continues to remain stuck as its Public Works Department has expressed inability to implement the scheme, citing a lack of expertise.
Earlier this month, the project-in-charge wrote to the Public Works Department (PWD) engineer-in-chief in this connection.
A government official said that the Information Technology department of the Delhi government should execute the project as it has the expertise required to implement it.
In the 2018-19 Delhi Budget, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia allocated Rs 100 crore to provide free Wi-Fi facility and handed over the project to the PWD from the Information Technology department.
"We have conveyed to the higher authorities in the PWD that IT department should execute this project as we lack expertise in this field," an official of the PWD said.
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