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(1) Any facility provider may submit an application to the person under whose ownership,
control or management of property not covered under section 11 is vested, to seek right of way for
telecommunication network under, over, along, across, in or upon such property.
(2) On receipt of an application from a facility provider, the person receiving the application may
enter into an agreement, specifying consideration as mutually agreed, for---
(a) undertaking surveys as may be required by the facility provider for the purpose of assessing
the feasibility for establishing telecommunication network; or
(b) establishing, operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, augmenting, removing or relocating
any telecommunication network by the facility provider.
(3) The facility provider shall do as little damage as possible to the property when undertaking any of
the activities for which permission has been granted under sub-section (2).
(4) In case of any damage to the property, the facility provider shall restore such property to its state
as existed prior to the undertaking of such activities, failing which the person granting permission under
sub-section (2), shall be entitled to compensation as may be mutually agreed, for any such damage.
(5) The Central Government may by rules provide for the procedure to be followed by a facility
provider to enter, survey, establish, operate, maintain, repair, replace or relocate the telecommunication
network, including the notice period, the manner of issuance of notice, the framework governing
objections by owner or occupier of the property, the manner in which such objections would be resolved,
and matters relating to the compensation payable for any damage.
(6) If the person under sub-section (2) fails to provide the right of way requested, and the Central
Government determines that it is necessary so to do in the public interest, it may, either by itself or
through any other authority designated by the Central Government for this purpose, determine that such
facility provider shall be permitted the right of way to establish, operate, maintain such
telecommunication network, subject to such terms and conditions, including charges for the right of way,
and compensation for damage to the property, if any, to be payable to such person as may be prescribed.
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