Sterlite Technologies has bagged an advance purchase order from Bharat Sanchar Nigam  (BSNL) for end-to-end deployment including design, engineering, implementation and maintenance of a part of Network for Spectrum (NFS) project - Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) Network in the state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K).

The company has been awarded the project to build a new communications network for exclusive use by the armed forces in lieu of the spectrum. It will include a highly resilient exclusive OFC-based nationwide Optical backbone for defence sites and access networks at army sites.

The scope of work includes a full roll-out of OFC network to be owned and operated by the defence services under the project implementation core group (PICG), Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The company has bagged the contract to maintain the Jammu & Kashmir network for an additional period of seven years, at a cost of about Rs 500 crore. The order is expected to be completed by 2016.

In the power distribution segment, the company has been awarded a project to establish a power transmission infrastructure in J&K under NRSS 29.

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