BharatNet Project: Govt to provide free WiFi to all villages till March 2020 BharatNet Project was earlier known as OFC (Optical Fiber Communication Network) Project. BharatNet in News: Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad recently said that free WiFi will be provided to all the villages across the country through BharatNet by March 2020. Currently, 48,000 villages have been connected via the BharatNet project. Union Minister said that we have connected 1.3 lakh Gram Panchayats with BharatNet optical fiber. He also said that our goal is to connect 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats with BharatNet optical fiber. BharatNet Project • BharatNet Project was earlier known as OFC (Optical Fiber Communication Network) Project. • BharatNet project aims to connect more than 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats with high-speed broadband through the optical fiber at affordable prices. • It will provide broadband speed from 2 to 20 Mbps. • It is proposed to provide broadband connect