In the meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan approved the “Policy 2023 to facilitate the establishment of Telecom infrastructure in Madhya Pradesh” and “Guidelines 2023 to facilitate the establishment of Telecom infrastructure in Madhya Pradesh” formulated in alignment with Right of Way Rules 2022 and Indian Telegraph (Infrastructure Security) Rules, 2022 issued by Government of India. With the implementation of the said policy, the telecommunication infrastructure (4G/5G) in Madhya Pradesh will be expanded quickly and easily and the income of the state government will increase.
To ensure planned development and expansion of telecommunication services and infrastructure in the state, ” Madhya Pradesh Policy and Guidelines 2019 to facilitate the establishment of infrastructure for providing wire line or wireless based voice and data access services by telecommunication service, internet service, infrastructure providers” is currently in force. The validity period of the policy is till December, 2023. At present, the facilities of 5G telecommunication have also been rolled out within the country, the Right of Way (ROW) (Amendment) Rules, 2022 have been issued by the Government of India, Ministry of Communications, Department of Telecommunications on 17 August 2022, in which specific provisions have been made to provide the setting up of telecom infrastructure related to 5G roll-out and further strengthening of infrastructure. The Indian Telegraph (Infrastructure Security) Rules, 2022 have been issued by the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India on 3 January 2023 in which provision has been made in these rules that if any person / agency does excavation or mining work on the existing telecom infrastructure site established on public and private property, then the general public shall inform the concerned licensee through the portal. This will save the telecom infrastructure from unwanted damage.
