12th Five Year Plan

Twelfth Plan Targets for the Telecommunication Sector

  1. Provision of 1200 million connections by 2017.
  2. Mobile access to all villages and increase rural tele-density to 70 per cent by 2017.
  3. Broadband connection of 175 million by 2017.
  4. Commissioning of National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)
  5. Make available additional 300 MHz of spectrum for IMT services
  6. Making India a hub for telecom equipment manufacturing by incentivising domestic manufacturers with thrust on IPR, product development and commercialisation.
  7. Provide preferential market access for indigenously manufactured products.
  8. To increase domestic manufactured products in telecom network to the extent of 60 per cent with value addition of 45 per cent by 2017.
  9. Adoption of green policy in Telecom and incentivise use of renewable energy sources.