Google, RailTel launched free WiFi service at Bhubaneswar Railway station

Google in collaboration with RailTel, the telecom arm of the Indian Railways, rolled out free Wi-Fi service at Bhubaneswar railway station on 17 April 2016. 
•    With this, Bhubaneswar railway station became the second station to be covered under the Google-RailTel Wi-Fi project. Free Wi-Fi by Google-RailTel took off at Mumbai Central in January 2016.
•    This facility will enable passengers to stream high definition videos while waiting for their respective trains at the railway station.
•    Besides Bhubaneswar, trials are going on at about 10 more stations which include Jaipur, Patna, Ranchi, Ernakulum, Allahabad, Lucknow and Guwahati. Wi-Fi services will be available on these stations in a short time.
•    Under the Digital India initiative, Google and RailTel have collaborated to make Wi-Fi network available across 100 stations to deliver high-speed Internet to 10 million Indians a day by the end 2016.
•    Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology.
•    It was launched on 1 July 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi.[1] The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high-speed internet networks. Digital India has three core components. These include:
•    The creation of digital infrastructure
•    Delivering services digitally
•    Digital literacy