The Union Ministry of Transport plans to invest over Rs 6,000 crore to develop an optical fiber cable (OFC) infrastructure along 25,000 km of national highways in the next few years. The Indian telcos and the government are also planning fibre deployments. Preference will be given for Horiz ntal Directional Drilling (HDD) wherever. Fiber optic cables are one of the most cost-effective modes of transmission and offer improved compatibility, robustness, and efficiency to the network. Under the DoT (Department of Telecommunications) initiative, BSNL awarded NEC India to design, engineer, supply, install, test and implement an. Construction of the Kanpur-Lucknow expressway is expected to start from December this year, as nearly 70 per cent of the land acquisition is complete.
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