PM-WANI: Government To Increase Wi-Fi Hotspots Across India To 20 Lakh By The End Of 2021 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The central government is planning a four time increase in public Wi-Fi hotspots across the country by the end of 2021 through the Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) scheme, Economic Times reports. The registrations for the applications to offer these services will be rolled out in the first week of January. âC-DoT, the technology development centre of the DoT, is working to make âWi-Fi access boxesâ widely available at around half the market price and we should open the registration process by the first week of next year,â said Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash.