In Orissa, a state transport bus service is providing Internet connectivity to rural regions of the state.
The bus is equipped with a Wi-Fi box and is a source of help to artists in Raghurajpur like Sarat Mohapatra. The United Villages kiosk in Raghurajpur is equipped with a Wi-Fi antenna and computers and Mohapatra saves his emails on the hard disk. When the Wi-Fi enabled bus passes through Raghurajpur, it picks up his email and delivers it to a nearby town with Internet connectivity. The United Village concept is also known as Daknet, or Internet Post, and the bus is like a postman. It connects 25 remote villages in Orissa to already Internet-enabled areas.
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