The Tamil Nadu FibreNet Corporation (TANFINET) has signed the Master Service Agreement for implementation of BharatNet Project in Tamil Nadu (two packages) with various system integrators.

The project aims at providing one Gbps bandwidth connectivity to all Gram Panchayats. It signed the agreement with Larsen & Toubro (L&T) (for Package C); ITI (Package D) and third-party agency BECIL.

After the disposal of the pending litigations in Package A and Package B, the project will be implemented in all the 12,525 gram panchayats in Tamil Nadu.

The project will cover gram panchayats through optical fibre cable with high-speed bandwidth connectivity. TANFINET is a special purpose vehicle implementing the BharatNet project in Tamil Nadu at a total cost of Rs 1,815 crore.

To implement the project, four packages -- A, B, C and D -- were formed district wise and four system integrators were identified, one for each package, along with a third-party agency (TPA) to inspect and audit the implementation.

Package C will cover 3,326 gram panchayats in Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Pudukottai, Namakkal, Karur, Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Tiruchirappalli districts.

Package D will cover 3,103 gram panchayats in Kanyakumari, Madurai, Ramanathapuram, Theni, Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Virudhunagar, Tenkasi, Dindigul and Sivagangai districts.