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NDMC will provide the service in partnership with Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited and telecom company Oneott Intertainment. NEW DELHI: In a first for a civic body, the New Delhi Municipal Council will provide high-definition cable television services to residents of Lutyens' Delhi from mid-February, a move that will help it in its Smart City bid. “We have already completed the project for providing internet and telephone services through FTTH and registered 370 users as yet,” said Naresh Kumar, chairman, NDMC. “After seeing the success of that project, we decided to utilise the same facility for providing cable TV services too.”Having taken this decision, the civic body signed an MoU with MTNL and Nxt Digital, the leading service provider for HITS technology in India. Kumar, pleased at being the first municipal body to offer cable TV through HITS, said that the Union ministry of information and broadcasting too has been stressing on employing this technology to change digital broadcasting in India..