Bangalore, June 26: Railtel Corporation of India, the communication arm of the Indian Railways, is planning to set-up cyber cafes at over 200 major railway stations across the country by the year end, railway minister Nitish Kumar said today.
"The first cyber cafe will be inaugurated tomorrow at New Delhi railway station. Based on the feedback of the users, we are intending to extend to over 200 important stations in the country in the first phase by the end of this year," Kumar told reporters at the commissioning of the "optic fibre communication link on Bangalore-Secunderabad, Secunderabad- Vijayawada-Chennai and Chennai-Ooty-Bangalore" here. He said the cyber cafes would be extended to all railway stations in the country, based on the initial success.
Stating that Railtel had set a target of laying optic fibre cable for over 40,000 kms in the country, Kumar said nearly 21,000 kms of it had already been laid.

The railways would also experiment by providing broadband internet access on moving train, the first such instance in the world, he said. The service would be launched on a train this year.


He said the Railtel infrastructure would also be used around five kms from a railway station in villages and towns, besides using it for e-governance, tele-education and telemedicine applications. Bureau Report