BharatNet is an ambitious program conceived by Government of India to provide broadband connectivity to all Village Panchayats in the country. Under this Scheme about 1,50,000 Village Panchayats across country are to be provided broadband connectivity by March 2017 in Phase I of the Project. The remaining 1,00,000 Village Panchayats are planned to be covered under Phase II. All the 12,525 Village Panchayats in TN are to be connected under Phase II of this Scheme.

"BharatNet" Scheme is implemented in Tamil Nadu as a State Led Model through a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) namely TamilNadu FibreNet Corporation (TANFINET). The GoTN has issued a Government Order for the formation of SPV viz., TamilNadu FibreNet Corporation (TANFINET) with a Share Capital of Rs.50 Lakhs to execute the BharatNet Project under which 12,525 Village Panchayats are planned to be covered for internal connectivity through Optical Fibre Cable.

Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation was handling the BharatNet Scheme which is now being handled by newly incorporated TANFINET Corporation. The project implementation is divided into four packages geographically and the Master System Integrator (MSI)/ System Integrators (SIs) for the four packages for the implementation of BharatNet was onboarded and on- field implementation is being carried out across the State.