Telecom penetration

Across rural Chhattisgarh, cellular network penetration used to be the lowest in the country at 29 per cent and almost three-fourths of households remained unconnected under the telecom network.

It is the result of careful thought and innovative policy making process through a long drawn period of 15 years that pulled Chhattisgarh from a state with nothing to one with the highest recorded economic growth in recent years.