Varanasi  which is  the  first of an eventual 2,500 locations singled out for street-level Wi-Fi  is facing problems at various levels which includes crowded streets, shortage of power supply and the most unique  one from the macaque monkeys.

Communication engineer AP Srivastava who is associated with the project has said "The monkeys, they destroy all the wires and eat all the wires,” He further  said that  his team had to restore the riverside cables when the monkeys chewed them up less than two months after they were installed. Varanasi is a city which has more than 20 lakh people living in it and laying underground cable is out of the question.

The present government has vowed to put down at least 700,000 kms of broadband cable to connect India's 250,000 village clusters within three years, build 100 new "Smart Cities" by 2020, a move which will face such hurdles in the coming days.