Justification for location the Project in forest land and details of alternatives examined:

M/s Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (A company Promoted by Reliance Industries Ltd), formerly Infotel Broadband Services Ltd have got license to operate 4th Generation Broadband Wireless Access Services (4G) and implement Fiber to Home Networks across 23 States.

With a view to ensure connectivity, company is laying Optical Fiber Cable (Dark Fiber Cable) along the road side as per the agreed policy of Government of and as per GO No. 1485/ukS-9-2012-161t/12 dated 15.10.2012 issued by the Chief Secretary, Government of UP.

Since, the Fiber is to be connected end to end between the stretch District Muzaffarnagar & (Muzaffarnagar) along with road from C.Km.90.00- 113.500 on NH-58(Delhi-Muzaffarnagar Road), from Ch.km.117.00-123.00 on NH-58, from Ch.Km.80.00-75.00 on SH-12(Panipat-Khatima Road), from Ch.Km.5.900-16.00 on SH-59(Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur Road ), from Ch.Km.71.00-51.00 on SH-12(Panipat-Khatima Road), total Km.64.60 & Area 2.907Ha. in Forest Division/Social Forestry Division Muzaffarnagar-UP and along with road from Ch.Km.63.00-70.700 on MDR-14, From CH.KM. 121.700- 100.500 &96.700-97.900 on SH-57(Delhi-Yamnotri Road),from Ch.km. 18.00- 51.0 on SH-12(Kairana-Shamli Road),from 0.00-0.900 on Kairana- Road, from Ch.km.65.600-63.700 on SH-82 (Meerut-Shamli-Karnal Road) and from Ch.km. 83.400-76.500 on SH-57(Delhi-Yamnotri Road) , total Km.72.80 & Area 3.276Ha. ,in Forest Division/Social Forestry Division Shamli– UPTotal Km.137.40 & 6.183Ha. in Forest Division/Social Forestry Division Muzaffarnagar & Shamli –UP.and the same stretch falls under Forest, hence the permission to lay Optical Fiber Cable (Dark Fiber Cable) is being required. It is the minimum requirement of Forest land and there is no alternative for this Forest land.

We have done the survey and find that there is no alternate route available to lay the Fiber and to connect the same with the other end. Hence, it is requested that permission may kindly be granted.

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