DoT’s Samriddh Gram Wins WSIS Prize 2026 for Driving Rural Digital Transformation

New Delhi ( Pallavi Shrivastava) : The Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) flagship rural digital transformation initiative, Samriddh Gram: Integrated Phygital Service Delivery Model Enabled by BharatNet, has won the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2026 under Action Line C6 – Enabling Environment.

The award was presented during the WSIS Forum 2026 in Geneva, recognising India’s model of using digital public infrastructure and telecom connectivity to deliver integrated services in rural areas.

Instituted under the World Summit on the Information Society process led by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the WSIS Prizes honour projects that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development.