{"id":1015243,"date":"2026-06-18T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015243"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:04:39","slug":"maha-cabinet-clears-mahanet-digital-infrastructure-limited-for-bharatnet-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/maha-cabinet-clears-mahanet-digital-infrastructure-limited-for-bharatnet-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Maha cabinet clears MahaNet Digital Infrastructure Limited for BharatNet expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Maharashtra Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Tuesday cleared the formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) named Mahanet Digital Infrastructure Limited (MDIL) to effectively execute the upgraded BharatNet Phase-2 programme. <\/p>\n<p>According to the government release, MDIL will build a robust, high-speed optical fibre broadband backbone connecting all gram panchayats and rural households to high-speed internet, boosting e-governance, 4G mobile expansion, and Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) connections. The existing network from BharatNet Phase-1 and 2 will be transferred to this new SPV on an &#8220;as-is&#8221; basis. Crucially, any pending legal disputes or financial liabilities from previous phases will not be passed on to MDIL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The Maharashtra Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Tuesday cleared the formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) named Mahanet Digital Infrastructure Limited (MDIL) to effectively execute the upgraded BharatNet Phase-2 programme. According to the government release, MDIL will build a robust, high-speed optical fibre broadband backbone connecting all gram panchayats and rural households to high-speed internet, boosting e-governance, 4G mobile expansion, and Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) connections. The existing network from BharatNet Phase-1 and 2 will be transferred to this new SPV on an &#8220;as-is&#8221; basis. Crucially, any pending legal disputes or financial liabilities from previous phases will [&hellip;]<\/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-1015243","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\/1015243","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=1015243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015256,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015243\/revisions\/1015256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}