Hon’ble Chief Minister announced on 14.07.2017, that a “project called TamilNet will be implemented to connect all the Corporations, Municipalities and Town Panchayats of the State through high speed bandwidth using optical fibre network, thereby enabling the urban citizens to reap the benefits of the Digital Revolution and avail the services of Government Departments at their doorsteps.”

It has been decided to utilize the existing and proposed fibre networks of TANTRANSCO and TANFINET Corporation for building the network for TamilNet. This project will be integrated with the BharatNet project to establish an Integrated Digital Infrastructure (IDI) of the State.