Tofurther strengthen the telecommunication infrastructure in the state as part ofits focus on e-governance and e-commerce, the Punjab government has decided toregularise all telecom towers installed unauthorizedly between December 5, 2013and December 7, 2020.
Thedecision was taken at Wednesday’s virtual cabinet meeting chaired by ChiefMinister Captain Amarinder Singh. The cabinet decided to extend the scope ofprovisions in Section 2.0 (I)(a) of the Telecom Guidelines issued on December7, 2020 for this purpose.
Accordingto a spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office, the regularisation would besubject to the fulfilment of conditions contained in clause 1.4(I)(a) of theTelecom Guidelines dated December 7, 2020, along with one-time payment of Rs.20,000. The scheme is open for sixmonths.
Thestate telecom guidelines are aligned to the Right of Way Rules 2016 issued bythe Indian Government under the Indian Telegraph Act 1985 on November 15, 2016.The GoI had asked all the States/UTs to align their respective TelecomPolicies/Guidelines with these Rules.