Dialling the wrong number again

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while inaugurating the India Telecom Summit 2013 last week, expressed concern that the rural tele-density was just over 40 per cent with millions of people in villages still remaining untouched by the telecom revolution. He further said that the Government was alive to the need for expansion of telecom services in the rural areas and has set a target for increasing rural tele-density to 70 per cent by 2017 and 100 per cent by 2020.

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