CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Recently, the Central Government has notified the Indian Telegraph Right of Way (Amendment) Rules, 2021. The rule aims to incorporate the provisions related to nominal one-time compensation and uniform procedure for establishment of Overground Telegraph Line in the Indian Telegraph Right of Way Rules, 2016.

Detailed explanation-2: -No administrative fee shall be charged by the Central government for the establishment of poles on land owned/controlled by it. For State/UTs, this fee will be limited to Rs 1, 000 per pole. The fee for laying overground optical fibre shall be limited to Rs 1, 000/ Km.

Detailed explanation-3: -Telegraph was first installed in 1851 and a trans-India telegraph was completed three years later in 1854. The telegraph had become, in the intervening thirty years, an important tool for British dominion over India by quelling rebellions and consolidating information.

Detailed explanation-4: -Power to establish telegraph on land of Railway Company:- Any Railway company, on being required so to do by the Central Government, shall permit the Government to establish and maintain a telegraph upon any part of the lank of the Company, and shall give every reasonable facility for working the same.