Caption: India's Minister of State of Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot hands over a satellite phone to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) for the benefit of ITBP soldiers at the eastern Indian town of Itanagar. India is working towards connecting each of 626,000 villages spread across 28 states and union territories through telephone and broadband.

Caption: India's Minister of State of Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot inaugurates a broadband internet service in the eastern Indian city of Guwahati in Assam state. The minister sees communications access as not just bridging the digital divide between urban and rural India, but also becoming a great unifier.