Government will digitally connect all Post Offices in rural areas by March 2017. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Government has approved the Department of Posts' IT Modernisation Project with the objective of modernisation, digitisation and networking of about 1,55,000 Post Offices.<br/><br/>The Minister said, the Rural Information and Communication Technology project is in its implementation phase and the objective of this project is to digitise all the rural Post Offices through a hand-held computing device, connecting them with the help of SIM card based network.