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New Delhi, Mar 7 (PTI) The government has approved a Rs 9,175 crore dedicated Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) communication network for the Defence Services for the Spectrum released by them, Lok Sabha was informed today."Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) has given a financial approval of Rs 9,175.16 crore for laying of alternate communication network for Defence Services and this project is to be completed by December 2012," Defence Minister A K Antony said in a written reply.The Minister said the communication network for the armed forces would be laid by public sector telecom giant BSNL.In the allocation made for the project, Rs 1,077 crore are for the IAF and the rest are for the Army, Antony said.Meanwhile, answering another query, the Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju said a decision on taking penal action against the foreign and Indian firms named in the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) scam would be taken soon."A decision on taking penal will be taken after examining the reply of the firms and in consultation with the Ministry of Law and Justice and CVC," he said.In June 2010, the CBI had named and recommended blacklisting of six firms for being involved in illegal gratification in the case.The companies included Singapore Technologies Kinetics, Israel Military Industries, T S Kisan Private Limited, Rheinmetall Air Defence (RAD), Zurich and Corporation Defence, Russia.The Minister said fresh show-cause notices have been issued to all the firms, which have been recommended for black listing by CBI based on the contents of the charge sheet."Some of the firms have requested to provide all documents and other substantiating material and they have been provided with the available documents in the Ministry and have been directed to submit their reply to the show cause notice," he added.
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