Wifi facility provided at 6108 railway stations

March 31, 2023, 2:47 PM
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Indian Railways have decided to provide free Wi-Fi at all railway stations except halt. So far, Wi-Fi facility has been provided at 6108 stations. State-wise list is appended. The provision of Wi-Fi at stations depends upon the availability of Infrastructure like Optical Fiber Cable & Other resources.

Indian Railways is committed to make all its railway stations and trains accessible for Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) as part of “Sugamya Bharat Mission”. Improvement/ augmentation of customer amenities including those for differently abled passengers (Divyangjan) at Railway stations is a continuous process.

Expenditure incurred for customer Amenities during each of the last three years & current year is as under:

Financial Year 2019-20 ₹1903.10 cr.
Financial Year 2020-21 ₹2582.82 cr.
Financial Year 2021-22 ₹1995.77 cr.
Financial Year 2022-23 ₹1766.37 cr.

( till Feb’23)

APPENDIX

State-wise list of stations where Wi-Fi facility provided till date: –

S.N. State/UT Name No. of stations where Wi-Fi got installed under PPP
1 Andhra Pradesh 509
2 Arunachal Pradesh 3
3 Assam 220
4 Bihar 393
5 Chhattisgarh 119
6 Delhi 26
7 Goa 19
8 Gujarat 335
9 Haryana 140
10 Himachal Pradesh 24
11 Jammu & Kashmir 28
12 Jharkhand 215
13 Karnataka 335
14 Kerala 120
15 Madhya Pradesh 408
16 Maharashtra 566
17 Meghalaya 1
18 Mizoram 1
19 Nagaland 3
20 Odisha 234
21 Punjab 151
22 Rajasthan 463
23 Tamil Nadu 415
24 Telangana 47
25 Tripura 20
26 UT Chandigarh 1
27 UT Puducherry 3
28 Uttar Pradesh 768
29 Uttarakhand 31
30 West Bengal 510
Total 6108

This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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