Lucknow, Jan. 31 -- Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), a Navratna CPSU, under the Ministry of Railways in collaboration with HFCL and Aerial Telecom Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (ATS) as part of the RVNL-HFCL-ATS Consortium, has been awarded two key packages.

The packages are worth Rs 13,235.57 crore of BharatNet Middle-Mile Network Project for Uttar Pradesh by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's (BSNL).

The project consists of two packages-- UP East and UP West which together will cover all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh with a total of 827 blocks and 59280 Gram Panchayats by laying 82000 km of Optical fibre cable.

This BharatNet initiative, funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Govern...