Union Government has complete focus on e-Governance and each and every scheme for citizens is on Digital Platform for speedy and hassle free implementation. Direct Money Transfer, applications for other beneficial schemes are online only to cut cost, ease of use, no contact to check corruption and many other benefits are associated with Digital India. But for all these one requires high speed internet, preferably wireless. It is indeed a serious matter if more than three hundred villages are without mobile connectivity, even after 25 years of mobile launch in India. GoI has rightly directed UT administration to clear all hurdles regarding land and permissions to speed up 4G installation at all these villages including border areas. Phases have been devised and in phase one priority to areas where utmost urgency is there. Why administration of Doda and Kishtwar are not able to get poor mobile connectivity issue resolved on Doda-Kishtwar national highway despite fatal road accidents every other day and when communication is most important thing for timely help from every possible option. More serious is the issue of poor network at tourists places which is major bottleneck to promote particular area. During recent Back to Village program one of the major complaint is poor mobile connectivity. In the absence of mobile connectivity or poor connectivity delivery of various e-governance services, banking services, telemedicine, tele-education all become useless for general public. It’s high time all DCs give proactive support to the service providers regarding allocation of State land for mobile towers, speedy clearance of sites in forest areas, lease/acquisition of sites, permissions and power connectivity. Coordination with GREF , NOCs from PWD, Forest and PDD has to be issued in time bound manner to get the towers and cables in place without any further delay. Inordinate delays are not going to help anyone, neither administration nor public.
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