As many as 829 villages in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra have no Internet connectivity was revealed by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in an affidavit filed before the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court (HC) on January 19 when hearing on a suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL) (No7/2020) took place, reports telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com. The PIL was based on letters by 10 school students, hailing from remote villages in the Naxalite [Left Wing Extremist, LWE]-infested District, to the HC Chief Justice and senior administrative judge at the Nagpur bench, where Firdos Mirza was appointed as amicus curiae. Upset over the information by the DoT, a division bench comprising justices Sunil Shukre and Anil Pansare expressed concern over the future of schoolchildren from the tribal-dominated district.