New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Digital Bharat Nidhi and the Andhra Pradesh government have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) for the expedited implementation of the Amended BharatNet Programme (ABP) in the State.

The Memorandum was signed on February 22 in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya M Scindia and Minister of State for Communications Dr Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar.

The Memorandum was signed at the Chief Minister's Camp Office, Tadepalle, Guntur District.

Emphasizing the importance and scale of the BharatNet program, Scindia said that amended BharatNet is a USD 16.9 billion, i.e., Rs 1,39,000 crore, publicly funded program of the Centre, which will take OFC fiber and broa...