New highways to have ducts for telecom lines

New Delhi: The government is working on a plan to construct dedicated ducts along new highways for laying optical fibre lines for telecom and power lines, among others.

Sources said the road transport ministry has agreed to provide land along the greenfield highways to the telecom department for this purpose.

TOI has learnt that the telecom department will bid out the stretches for building the ducts to private players and they will be responsible for maintaining the facilities.


The successful bidder will allow the service providers to put their optical fibre lines or other utilities by charging certain amount to recover the cost and for carrying out maintenance.