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The Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA) on Monday accused the Noida Authority of “coercive action” towards these putting in telecom gear on their premises. The DIPA mentioned in a press launch that it has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra, searching for his “urgent intervention”.
The affiliation mentioned that the Noida Authority’s refusal to grant tower permissions was inconsistent with the mannequin guidelines made by the Union Government, and an Uttar Pradesh authorities order. The Hindu has reached out to the Noida Authority for remark.
For occasion, the DIPA mentioned, a landlord had despatched them a letter “which states that the NOIDA authority has cancelled the lease deed of the plot at … Sector-20 solely on the ground that said landlord has allowed installation of a digital communication site on [the] roof of his property to enable mobile communication network in the area”. The landlord then switched off the telecom gear on the positioning.
“… It is imperative that the NOIDA Authority understands the importance of communication infrastructure and allows operations without any coercive action,” DIPA Director-General T.R. Dua mentioned in a press release, and urged Mr. Mishra to think about the “tremendous pressure” that landlords renting house to telecom gear suppliers had been beneath.
