{"id":1000803,"date":"2026-04-02T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000803"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:34:44","slug":"irregularities-alleged-in-kswan-3-0-tender-karnataka-may-face-rs-90-crore-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/irregularities-alleged-in-kswan-3-0-tender-karnataka-may-face-rs-90-crore-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Irregularities alleged in KSWAN 3.0 tender, Karnataka may face Rs 90 crore burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Allegations of irregularities have surfaced in the tendering process for KSWAN 3.0 &#8212; Karnataka State Wide Area Network project, with claims that the state government may incur an additional financial burden exceeding Rs 90 crore because of procedural violations. <\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s e-Governance Department is accused of bypassing established tender norms while awarding the contract for upgrading the existing statewide network infrastructure. KSWAN 3.0 aims to enhance and expand the digital connectivity linking all government offices across Karnataka, building on an already operational network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Allegations of irregularities have surfaced in the tendering process for KSWAN 3.0 &#8212; Karnataka State Wide Area Network project, with claims that the state government may incur an additional financial burden exceeding Rs 90 crore because of procedural violations. The state\u2019s e-Governance Department is accused of bypassing established tender norms while awarding the contract for upgrading the existing statewide network infrastructure. KSWAN 3.0 aims to enhance and expand the digital connectivity linking all government offices across Karnataka, building on an already operational network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}