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‘Delays and arbitrary charges by authorities for RoW approvals holding back telecom expansion’
Millennium Post Delhi
|October 13, 2025
Prolonged delays, arbitrary charges, and inconsistent processes of local authorities for right of way permissions required for rolling out telecom infrastructure are holding back the expansion of digital networks, Minister of State for Communications Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani said.
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‘The minister, during a meeting with state IT ministers at India Mobile Congress 2025, urged the state governments to take action to operationalize single window systems, enforce time bound approvals, collaborate with local bodies to ensure rational cost based charges and align state IT policies with newer developments.
This story is from the October 13, 2025 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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