{"id":1008147,"date":"2026-05-16T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008147"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:44:37","slug":"sunil-bharti-mittal-announces-succession-plan-meet-the-gennext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/sunil-bharti-mittal-announces-succession-plan-meet-the-gennext\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Bharti Mittal announces succession plan: Meet the GenNext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Airtel founder Sunil Bharti Mittal signals a gradual transition plan for his empire over the next decade, all eyes are on the next generation of the Mittal family. The telecom billionaire has long relied on professional management to run the group\u2019s flagship businesses, including vice chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal. <\/p>\n<p>Each of his three children, Kavin Bharti Mittal, Shravin Bharti Mittal and daughter Eiesha Bharti Pasricha, has independently built careers across technology, investing and lifestyle ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Airtel founder Sunil Bharti Mittal signals a gradual transition plan for his empire over the next decade, all eyes are on the next generation of the Mittal family. The telecom billionaire has long relied on professional management to run the group\u2019s flagship businesses, including vice chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal. Each of his three children, Kavin Bharti Mittal, Shravin Bharti Mittal and daughter Eiesha Bharti Pasricha, has independently built careers across technology, investing and lifestyle ventures.<\/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-1008147","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\/1008147","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=1008147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008188,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008147\/revisions\/1008188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}