Provision of Cyber Cafes and Telecom Centres
10 December 2004, PIB Press Release Online

RailTel has been authorized to plan cyber café, having telecom facilities such as Internet, Email, Audio/video chatting and Internet telephony on franchisee basis at important stations only, in a phased manner.

One Cyber café has been commissioned at New Delhi Station as a pilot project. Out of the stations, where technical feasibility to provide cyber cafes exist, it is planned to provide cyber cafes at 51 stations in Phase-I.

Expenditure will depend upon the number of work stations and the type of services to be provided. On an average, a cyber café will cost around Rs. 6 to 7 Lakhs. However, the expenditure on this account will be met by the Franchisee. Railways would provide space/land area only at Railway Stations with Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connectivity.

This information was given by the Minister of Railways Shri Lalu Prasad in reply to a question from Smt. Maya Singh in the Rajya Sabha today.

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