The Telecom Department plays a critical role in ensuring seamless communication across individuals, businesses, and governments. It drives economic growth by enabling connectivity, data exchange, and access to essential services. Additionally, it supports national security, technological advancement, and social inclusion through improved infrastructure and services. Uttar Pradesh is one of the first few states to create fundamental IT infrastructure to support e-enabled life and work. To strengthen this core Information and Telecommunication Infrastructure, the State intends to additionally promote effective transformation in society through accelerated sustainable and equitable economic expansion by encouraging systematic and timely provision of high-quality infrastructure for internet access and telecommunication services across the state, particularly in rural and remote regions.

In light of the foregoing, the Uttar Pradesh government has launched a project called "Right of Way as per the Telecommunications (Right of Way) Rules 2024 to ensure that the State government plays its role effectively in transforming the socioeconomic scenario through accelerated equitable and all-encompassing economic growth, with a focus on providing reliable and inexpensive telecommunication services in the state's rural and remote areas. It also allows the State Government to benefit citizens by offering seamless connectivity throughout Uttar Pradesh and developing an integrated strategy for the state, as well as giving Single Window Clearance for the construction of Overground and Underground Telegraph Infrastructure.