{"id":1003974,"date":"2026-04-21T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003974"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:29:48","slug":"centre-to-cut-its-officers-deployment-in-bsnl-asks-telco-to-develop-internal-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/centre-to-cut-its-officers-deployment-in-bsnl-asks-telco-to-develop-internal-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to cut ITS officers\u2019 deployment in BSNL, asks telco to develop internal talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), in a communication to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), conveyed the decision of the Cabinet for the reduction in deployment of Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS) officers at the state-run telecom carrier. <\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet has decided to reduce the deployment of ITS officers in BSNL from this year onwards, eventually cutting it down fully, and has sought the telco to prepare a succession plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), in a communication to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), conveyed the decision of the Cabinet for the reduction in deployment of Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS) officers at the state-run telecom carrier. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet has decided to reduce the deployment of ITS officers in BSNL from this year onwards, eventually cutting it down fully, and has sought the telco to prepare a succession plan.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003974","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=1003974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}