The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) administrative council has approved the J&K Communication and Connectivity Infrastructure Policy (JKCCIP).
With this policy, the government aims to improve telecom and internet connectivity in the union territory (UT) to fulfill objectives under the National Broadband Mission.
The approval was granted at a recent meeting of the council held under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
The new policy includes rights of way (RoW) provisions, to ensure hassle-free approval of RoW permissions in a time-bound manner through a single-window mechanism. Further, to facilitate this, development of an online portal by the J&K e-Governance Agency is expected to be done within one year.
According to industry sources, under the new policy, permits with two years’ validity will be issued to infrastructure providers for laying optical fibre cable (OFC) network or underground telegraph infrastructure and installing telegraph infrastructure on open land.
