India Manmohan Singh government issued cell phone to win the election intends to six million poor families

In order to win more votes in the 2014 general election, India, Manmohan Singh government is planning a phone issued to about 600 million poor families per household.

According to sources close to the plan, the plan may be announced by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 15th, the program includes not only the Nike shox OZ mobile phone issued to families below the poverty-stricken counties, will provide 200 minutes of free talk time. This program will cost about 70 billion rupees.

Reported that the project funds may come from the telecommunications universal service obligation (USO) Fund. According to a source revealed that 50% of the cost of the project will come from service providers the right to bidders, and the rest from the universal service obligation fund. It is estimated that in the plan, the monthly cost of each phone is about 100 rupees, the Indian government is still looking for the Nike shox Agent possibility of through competitive bidding to subsidize service charges.