{"id":1038445,"date":"2026-09-25T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038445"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:16:53","slug":"%e2%82%b95700-crore-gujarat-bharatnet-program-in-limbo-bsnl-flags-restrictive-terms-domestic-firms-cry-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/%e2%82%b95700-crore-gujarat-bharatnet-program-in-limbo-bsnl-flags-restrictive-terms-domestic-firms-cry-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20b95,700-crore Gujarat BharatNet program in limbo; BSNL flags restrictive terms, domestic firms cry foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Gujarat Fibre Grid Network Limited (GFGNL), a special purpose vehicle (SPV), has landed in controversy again for allegedly defying the Centre&#8217;s guidelines in the Amended BharatNet Program (ABP) by imposing an excessive turnover clause that restricts homegrown firms. <\/p>\n<p>The Request for Proposals (RFP) mandates that the sole bidder or consortium must have a minimum audited average annual financial turnover of \u20b94,700-crore over the last three financial years, a clause strongly contested by vendors and industry groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Gujarat Fibre Grid Network Limited (GFGNL), a special purpose vehicle (SPV), has landed in controversy again for allegedly defying the Centre&#8217;s guidelines in the Amended BharatNet Program (ABP) by imposing an excessive turnover clause that restricts homegrown firms. The Request for Proposals (RFP) mandates that the sole bidder or consortium must have a minimum audited average annual financial turnover of \u20b94,700-crore over the last three financial years, a clause strongly contested by vendors and industry groups.<\/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-1038445","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\/1038445","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=1038445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038446,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038445\/revisions\/1038446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}