BSNL has asked the Defence Ministry to amend the conditions for the tender floated towards setting up an alternate optical fibre network for the latter, reports the Business Standard.

“We have written to the defence ministry for change in tender conditions as some companies have said that the current conditions are very strict,” a senior BSNL official told Business Standard.

The main barrier for most of the interested companies is that the existing tender norms require them to have their own manufacturing facility in India. Most companies allege that this condition works in favour of couple of companies and leaves the others out of fray.

As reported earlier, Paramount Cables too objected to this condition. It had written a letter to BSNL to amend the condition.

The setting up of the optical fibre network is part of the MoU reached between the DoT and the Ministry of defence towards vacation of 3G spectrum by the Defene forces for commercial use.