{"id":1011976,"date":"2026-06-03T17:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011976"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:58:32","slug":"taxpayer-funded-no-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/03\/taxpayer-funded-no-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer Funded &#038; No Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor can treat a disease only after diagnosing its root cause. Symptoms must be identified honestly, and where they are unclear, diagnostic tests are used to uncover the mystery. But in the case of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), the patient appears intent on concealing the symptoms, while the doctors seem determined to believe that recovery is already underway. Worse, they are ignoring the diagnostic tools readily available to them. Who are these doctors? The Telecom Secretary and the Telecom Minister. <\/p>\n<p>If they are unwilling to examine the evidence, others must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor can treat a disease only after diagnosing its root cause. Symptoms must be identified honestly, and where they are unclear, diagnostic tests are used to uncover the mystery. But in the case of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), the patient appears intent on concealing the symptoms, while the doctors seem determined to believe that recovery is already underway. Worse, they are ignoring the diagnostic tools readily available to them. Who are these doctors? The Telecom Secretary and the Telecom Minister. If they are unwilling to examine the evidence, others must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1012006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011976","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012007,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011976\/revisions\/1012007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}