Over 1,683 villages in Arunachal Pradesh will be covered with 4th Generation (4G) services by December 2023. The information has been provided by the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) Deputy Director General (DDG) Sunil Kumar Verma in Tawang.

Verma, along with Union Communication Ministry Additional Secretary VL Kantha Rao convened a meeting with representatives of Airtel and BSNL in Tawang on Tuesday.

He had sought support from the state government and the paramilitary and armed forces to proper implementation of the project by identifying a patch of land, movement of people, and providing electricity connections to achieve the target.

Verma further informed that fund collected from the telecom service providers under the USOF is used to provide telecom services to the remote villages of the country.

Verma and Rao are in the state to personally inspect and ensure that the telecom projects taken up by the state are being implemented properly.

Earlier, Rao visited some of the border outposts not connected with mobile network facilities and interacted with the personnel.

The Tawang Deputy Commissioner, Kesang Ngurup Damo, along with representatives of the paramilitary forces, Non-Government Organisations and student unions, apprised the additional secretary of the poor network connectivity in the district.

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