Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

The Power Transmission & Distribution Business of L&T Construction, subsidiary of Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has secured a major contract worth Rs 2442 crore from Bharat Sanchar Nigam, the project implementation agency for the Ministry of Defence. The contract is for supply, trenching, laying, installation, testing and commissioning of Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) Network which will establish exclusive optical national long distance backbone and optical access routes for the defence network. The scope largely covers OFC routes in central and southern India.

The project will be handled on a turnkey basis, intended for rollout of a nationwide OFC network which will be owned and operated by the Defence Services. This mega network will be deployed with state-of-the-art fibre optic cable technology which will form the backbone of optical highway infrastructure and serve as a highly resilient and reliable communication media for the defence sector.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is a technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company. It is one of the largest and most respected companies in India's private sector.