Boosting the government's Digital India drive, social media company Facebook will facilitate BSNL in setting up 100 wi-fi sites in rural India.<br/><br/>BSNL Chairman & Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava told PTI, Facebook has partnered with the state-run telecom company to sponsor 100 wi-fi hotspots in villages across west and southern India. They will pay 5 lakh Rs. for BSNL bandwidth for each hotspot per annum. The agreement between Facebook and BSNL is for three years and it can be further extended for two more years.<br/><br/>Shrivastava added that with such partnerships, BSNL is now able to set up wi-fi hotspots in areas where it is not commercially feasible to run those.BSNL is also extending optical fibre connectivity to these hotspots.