The Prime Minister's Office uses a comparatively speedy
internet connection. While an average internet connection speed in India is
2Mbps (megabytes per second), that of the PMO is 34Mbps, an RTI application has
revealed.
In a reply to the RTI application filed by Vinoth
Ranganathan, co-founder of onlinerti.com, the PMO has said the National
Informatics Centre (NIC) is providing an average of 34Mbps speed to the PMO
office.
"There is nothing wrong for our PM to have 34Mbps
speed internet. As the Prime Minister, he should have a better connectivity.
Google fibre in the US provides 1 Gbps (Gigabytes per second) connectivity to
ordinary citizens," said Ranganathan.
"In India, the Startup Village in Kochi has 1Gbps
connectivity which is almost 30 times the speed of our PMO," he said.
The recent "State of the Internet" quarterly
report by internet content delivery network Akamai has shown that India ranks
115 in the world. South Korea has the maximum internet speed with 24.6Mbps.
The average peak connection speed in India is 14Mbps and
only 1.2% internet users in India enjoy the internet speeds of more than
10Mbps, the report adds.
In August, the Centre approved the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's ambitious Digital India project at Rs 1 lakh crore to ensure
high-speed internet access to all villages and is expected to be completed by
2019.
The RTI reply from PMO also said: "Client computer
works on Windows 7/Windows 8 and server works both on Windows and Linux."
"The computers at the PMO continue to work on
Windows 7/ Windows 8 even after the Edward Snowden episode. But countries like
China has banned Windows 8 operating systems from government computers because
of security concerns," said Ranganathan.
Responding to another RTI query on the new computer added
after Narendra Modi sworn in as the Prime Minister, the PMO said the
"sought information is not available".
The PMO has also refused to divulge the number of
computers at the PMO which have been hacked in the last five years.
The RTI application has also found that no amount is
being spent to maintain the PMO's official Twitter handle, PMO @PMOIndia. The
official Twitter handle has more than three million followers and over 1,700
tweets.
source-Times of India
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