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The “Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI)” scheme has been recently launched by RailTel. PM-WANI is the Department of Telecom’s program that helps facilitate the use and proliferates broadband usage across the country. The framework of the PM-WANI has been developed and designed by the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT). Through this scheme access to RailTel’s free and fast public WiFi services will be provided in 100 Indian Railways stations across the country having 2,384 WiFi hotspots. The government has plans of extending this PM-WANI-based WiFI access to all the 6102 railway stations having a Wi-Fi facility in a phased manner by June 2022’s end.