Dehradun, Dudhli village is set to become to the first gram panchayat in Uttarakhand to be fully wifi. Work is on war-footing in Doiwala with fibre optics cable being laid and utility poles being installed. The work is being carried out in Doiwala which is also Chief Minister’s Trivendra Singh Rawat’s constituency. The project is being carried out under Centre’s Digital India Scheme and should be operative by the end of this month.

The initiative of turning Dudhli wifi was taken up by Social Activist Ajay Kumar who wrote to the PMO on 1st of June 2016 seeking internet connectivity for his village. The PMO took note and assured him that the village would get internet facilities as soon as possible. The existing internet connectivity provided by mobile operators in the area was very poor.

Just a month back, around mid-March, a team of#CSCegov under the Ministry of Information Technology had surveyed Dudhli gram panchayat for setting up wifi facility, and within a short span of time, the project is nearing completion.

Talking to Newspost a while back, Gram Pradhan Hari Thapa had said, “we want to bring facilities available in town to our village as well and this initiative is a small step in that direction.”