Centre plans to geotag Telecom infrastructure
geotag key telecommunication infrastructure, including telecom towers and optical fibre cables, to facilitate coordination, particularly during disaster situations.
The mapping of telecom infrastructure will also facilitate setting up of other developmental projects across the country, officials aware of the development told ET. «We are working to geotag communication infrastructure across the country by 2027,» as per one official.
For this, DoT will coordinate with other ministries and state governments so that data can be shared to facilitate setting up of other projects that require telecom infrastructure as the backbone.
The Centre sees telecom infrastructure as a key ingredient towards to its vision of making India a developed nation by 2047. According to officials, though telecom infrastructure has reached most parts of the country, it is not mapped.
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