(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.