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The Cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval to enhance the budget for the Network For Spectrum (NFS) project for Defence services by ₹11,330 crore.
This is over and above ₹13,334 crore already approved by the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure in July, 2012. So, now the budget for the network for Defence services has now gone up to ₹24,664 crore.
In 2009-10, the Defence Ministry and Department of Telecom (DoT) had signed an agreement in which it was decided that Defence will vacate 25 MHz of 3G spectrum and 20 MHz of 2G spectrum in phases and in return, the DoT will set up an exclusive network for Defence communication services.
“The project, being implemented by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), will be completed in a period of 24 months,” an official statement said.
The NFS project will boost the communication capabilities of the Defence forces in a major way leading to enhanced national operational preparedness.
The project will also have forward linkages to other related industries such as telecom equipment manufacturing and other telecommunication related services, it said.
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