New Delhi, April 6 -- Indian Railways has approved a Rs 398.36 crore Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) project to strengthen communication infrastructure across Ahmedabad and Ratlam divisions of Western Railway, aimed at enhancing digital connectivity and supporting modern signalling systems.
The project has been sanctioned under the umbrella work titled Provision of Kavach with communication backbone of LongTerm Evolution (LTE) on balance routes of Indian Railways (Umbrella Work 2024 25).
As part of the initiative, a 4×48 Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) backbone will be deployed over 1,929 route kilometres (RKm), including 1,456 RKm in Ahmedabad Division and 473 RKm in Ratlam Division.
The Indian Railways said in a statement that the propose...