{"id":1001459,"date":"2026-04-07T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001459"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:55:38","slug":"railways-approves-%e2%82%b9398-crore-ofc-project-to-boost-communication-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/railways-approves-%e2%82%b9398-crore-ofc-project-to-boost-communication-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways approves \u20b9398 crore OFC project to boost communication network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian Railways has sanctioned an important project for strengthening its communication infrastructure in Western Railway with the approval of the provision of 4&#215;48 Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) Backbone in Ahmedabad and Ratlam Divisions at a total cost of \u20b9398.36 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The project has been approved under the umbrella work titled &#8220;Provision of Kavach with communication backbone of Long Term Evolution (LTE) on balance routes of Indian Railways (Umbrella Work 2024-25)&#8221;, which has an overall sanctioned cost of \u20b927,693 crore under Works Programme 2024-25 (PH-33).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian Railways has sanctioned an important project for strengthening its communication infrastructure in Western Railway with the approval of the provision of 4&#215;48 Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) Backbone in Ahmedabad and Ratlam Divisions at a total cost of \u20b9398.36 crore. The project has been approved under the umbrella work titled &#8220;Provision of Kavach with communication backbone of Long Term Evolution (LTE) on balance routes of Indian Railways (Umbrella Work 2024-25)&#8221;, which has an overall sanctioned cost of \u20b927,693 crore under Works Programme 2024-25 (PH-33).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}