New Delhi, July 9 -- Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia hails DoT's flagship Samriddh Gram project's Global win at WSIS Prizes 2026 under Action Line C6 - Enabling Environment. The International Telecommunication Union declared the project, officially known as Samriddh Gram: Integrated Phygital Service Delivery Model Enabled by BharatNet, the global winner after a multi-stage evaluation process that included global online voting and final expert adjudication.

More than 2.2 million votes were cast globally across all nominated categories during the voting phase.

According to the Ministry of Communications, the initiative establishes village-level Samriddhi Kendras as one-stop hubs. These centres utilise the BharatNet fibre backbone to d...