{"id":1004350,"date":"2026-04-23T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004350"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:59:47","slug":"bsnl-cmd-role-may-open-to-private-sector-as-centre-looks-beyond-internal-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/bsnl-cmd-role-may-open-to-private-sector-as-centre-looks-beyond-internal-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL CMD role may open to private sector as Centre looks beyond internal candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government may allow Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to appoint a chairman and managing director (CMD) from the private sector, marking a departure from past practice, people aware of the matter told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The move follows months of delay in appointing a full-time head after the exit of PK Purwar. Robert J Ravi, deputy director general (standards, research and innovation) at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has been holding additional charge as BSNL CMD since July 13, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government may allow Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to appoint a chairman and managing director (CMD) from the private sector, marking a departure from past practice, people aware of the matter told ET. The move follows months of delay in appointing a full-time head after the exit of PK Purwar. Robert J Ravi, deputy director general (standards, research and innovation) at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has been holding additional charge as BSNL CMD since July 13, 2024.<\/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-1004350","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\/1004350","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=1004350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}