{"id":1029931,"date":"2026-08-20T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029931"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:31:45","slug":"telecom-department-starts-process-to-disband-digital-communication-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/telecom-department-starts-process-to-disband-digital-communication-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom department starts process to disband Digital Communication Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Department of Telecom has begun the process of disbanding the Digital Communication Commission, formerly known as the Telecom Commission, the apex inter-ministerial body formed to make decisions on policy matters and subjects with significant financial implications. <\/p>\n<p>The body comprises the Telecom Secretary as its Chairman, four full-time members, who are ex-officio Secretaries to the Government of India in the Department of Telecommunications and four part-time members who are the secretaries to the Government of India in the concerned Departments. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process for seeking cabinet nod to dissolve the Digital Communication Commission has started,&#8221; an official source told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Department of Telecom has begun the process of disbanding the Digital Communication Commission, formerly known as the Telecom Commission, the apex inter-ministerial body formed to make decisions on policy matters and subjects with significant financial implications. The body comprises the Telecom Secretary as its Chairman, four full-time members, who are ex-officio Secretaries to the Government of India in the Department of Telecommunications and four part-time members who are the secretaries to the Government of India in the concerned Departments. &#8220;The process for seeking cabinet nod to dissolve the Digital Communication Commission has started,&#8221; an official source told [&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-1029931","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\/1029931","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=1029931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029958,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029931\/revisions\/1029958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}