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The Applicant shall have to provide free connectivity and bandwidth at Chandigarh, i.e., State Headquarter, within the reasonable period of signing the Agreement. This period would be determined through mutual negotiations. In case, the Applicant is not able to provide free connectivity and bandwidth at Chandigarh, the Government may accept connectivity & free bandwidth in lieu thereof at Panchkula, which shall be 12 MBPS with 14 nodes, which includes the free bandwidth to be provided for State Headquarter. The acceptance of band width at Panchkula is subject to negotiation at the time of issuing letter of Indent(LoI).

The interconnectivity of all nodes at any single place and between places in Haryana and Chandigarh shall be the responsibility of the Applicant. All Electronics for connectivity and providing free end-to-end bandwidth services, except the terminal equipments at the GOH premises, shall be the responsibility of the Applicant.

Notwithstanding anything contained herein above, the Applicant shall provide connectivity and free bandwidth at any place not later than the commencement of commercial service by the Applicant at that place.

The Applicant shall continue to provide connectivity and free bandwidth as per para (1) and (1.1) above during the entire period of licence, referred above and in the event of failure, GOH shall be free to recover from the Applicant charges for default in services at the prevalent market rates

Each Applicant shall set up at least 1500 Information Kiosks/ Public Facility Centre in the State as a Franchise/Business Model. The said kiosks shall be utilized both by the Government and the Public for Government to Citizen (G2C) and Citizen to Government (C2G) interface and dissemination of public interest information. Suitable business model shall be evolved jointly by the Government of Haryana and Applicant to achieve this objective.

Each Applicant shall provide facilities like Video Conferencing etc. to the State Government for Government usage. This facility will be provided free of cost at one of the locations to be specified by Secretariat for Information Technology. The level of services and specifications shall be decided mutually by the Applicant and the State Government with an approximate investment of Rs. 15.00 lacs.

5. A bank guarantee at the rate of Rs. 25 per route meter with a validity of one year initially (extendable if required till satisfactory completion of work) shall have to be furnished by each Applicant as a security against improper filling/ unsatisfactory compaction/ restoration and damages caused to other underground installations / utility services and interference, interruption, disruption or failure caused thereof to any services. The above charge of Rs. 25/- per route meter is liable to be reviewed every five years. Notwithstanding this, Applicant shall be liable to pay full compensation to the concerned authority for any damage sustained by them by reason of the exercise of Right of Way facility. However, in case of National Highway land, instead of furnishing the said bank guarantee, the payment of restoration charges would have to be made in advance by the Applicant to the owner i.e. Ministry of Surface Transport or its designated authority before permission is granted.

The Secretariat for Information Technology, Haryana shall act as a nodal agency, which will facilitate the granting of Right of Way permissions in Haryana State. Further any Applicant, which either has registered or intends to get registered as Infrastructure Provider such as IP-I or either has the license or intends to seek license from the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, such as IP-II, Basic Telephone Service, National Long Distance, International Long Distance, may apply to the Secretary, Information Technology for issue of permission or for LoI having the right of way for laying optic fibre cables in the State.

7. After the project is approved by the State Government and after the Applicant, which has applied for clearance to lay the optic fibre cable network has executed the agreement as specified in para (14) and provided the performance Bank Guarantee as specified in para (19), the Secretary, Information Technology shall forward the formal approval for laying the optic fibre, along with a copy of the agreement and the proposed route or routes for optic fibre cable network and the schedule in which the work is proposed to be executed by the Applicant to the concerned land owning authority.

8. The concerned authority shall, subject to the approval of the proposed route for optic fibre cable network and the schedule in which work is proposed to be executed and further subject to furnishing of Bank Guarantee as stipulated in para (5) above shall permit laying of such optic fibre cable network. The copy of the clearance along with the approved route shall be furnished to Secretariat, Information Technology for records.

9. Secretary, Information Technology shall be responsible for ascertaining the authority or authorities under whom such highways or roads and lands vest and expedite grant of clearances from the respective authorities. However, in case of National Highway land, Applicant would be required to take clearance from the Regional Officer of the Ministry of Surface Transport stationed in the State for laying of cables. As regards National Highway routes, executed by the State Public Works Department, the right of way clearance shall be granted by the State Chief Engineer (National Highways) with the concurrence of Regional Officers of the Ministry of Surface Transport. The clearance in respect of the National Highway routes held by the National Highway Authority of India and BRDB shall be granted by designated officers of National Highway Authority of India and BRDB respectively.

10. The concerned Government Department /Statutory Body shall not levy any charge or fee for right of way extended to the Applicant for laying optic fibre cable network. If required, separate notifications or orders will be issued under relevant acts or rules or by-laws to provide for such waiver of right of way charges.

11. The concerned Government Department /Agency /Statutory Body shall accord the required clearance within 2 weeks from the date of receipt of application subject to the applicant having executed the agreement specified in para (14) and having provided the bank guarantee as stipulated in the agreement enclosed to this order. Before giving such clearance to the Applicant, the authority shall take into account the requirement of widening of the roads /other services, if necessary.