New Delhi April 06 : RailTel Corporation of India, a PSU under Ministry of Railways on Wednesday said that it will install Internet Leased Line (ILL) in 16 command areas of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) located in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. In that direction, RailTel has received a work order from SECL worth Rs 15.76 crore. “The Internet Leased Line will be provided for a period of 5 years” RailTel said in a statement. “The scope of the work order includes providing dedicated uncompressed, unsharedsymmetric internet leased lines with different bandwidths” it said. Talking about the project, Puneet Chawla, CMD, RailTel said “One of the core businesses of RailTel is to provide reliable internet connectivity in the country and the company is in the forefront of National Digital Transformation. Coal sector is an important sector for RailTel and we have been implementing many projects for CIL and its subsidiaries.” “From January 2021 onwards, we have received orders worth Rs. 700+ Cr. from various subsidiaries of Coal India. We expect further revenue growth from the sector given the digitalization thrust across the sector” he said. Puneet Chawla, said apart from ILL, RailTel also provides MPLS V services, Internet Bandwidth, CCTV Implementation, HD video conferencing, LAN/WAN Connectivity etc. to the coal companies. We are committed to providing the best services to our clients.” SECL, a Govt. of India undertaking is the largest coal producing company of India and is one of the eight subsidiaries of Maharatna Government of India undertaking Coal India Ltd (CIL). The sixteen command area offices of SECL where ILL is to be provided are included, Bhatgoan, Bishrampur, Chirimiri, Dipka, Gevra, Hasdeo, Johilla, Korba, Kusmunda, Raigarh, CEWS Gevra, CWS Korba, Central Stores Korba-all in Chattisgarh: Baikunthpur, Jamuna and Kotma, Sohagpur-all in Madhya Pradesh. Railtel said, the internet will be provided not only at Area Office mentioned above but will further be distributed to nearly 500 Locations (weigh bridges/washeries/mines) situated in these 16 command areas. RailTel is a prominent Information and Comm cations Technology (ICT) provider and one of the largest neutral telecom infrastructure providers in the country owning a pan-India optic fiber network of 61000+ route kms on exclusive Right of Way (ROW) along Railway track. JA RKM