{"id":1031422,"date":"2026-08-27T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031422"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:40:54","slug":"dot-plans-to-trim-its-officers-at-headquarters-shift-over-100-to-field-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/dot-plans-to-trim-its-officers-at-headquarters-shift-over-100-to-field-units\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT plans to trim ITS officers at headquarters, shift over 100 to field units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is planning to reduce the number of Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS) officers posted at its headquarters in Delhi as part of a move to rationalise its workforce, according to officials aware of the development. <\/p>\n<p>The DoT currently has around 250 ITS officers at its headquarters. The department is now looking to reduce this number and shift over 100 officers to field units under the Director General of Telecommunications (DGT), including Licensed Service Areas (LSAs), as well as to other departments within the Ministry of Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is planning to reduce the number of Indian Telecommunication Service (ITS) officers posted at its headquarters in Delhi as part of a move to rationalise its workforce, according to officials aware of the development. The DoT currently has around 250 ITS officers at its headquarters. The department is now looking to reduce this number and shift over 100 officers to field units under the Director General of Telecommunications (DGT), including Licensed Service Areas (LSAs), as well as to other departments within the Ministry of Communications.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031422","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=1031422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031442,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031422\/revisions\/1031442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}