{"id":1043933,"date":"2026-10-16T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043933"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:03:37","slug":"mtnl-cmds-additional-charge-extended-by-three-months-bsnl-chief-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/mtnl-cmds-additional-charge-extended-by-three-months-bsnl-chief-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"MTNL CMD\u2019s additional charge extended by three months, BSNL chief to continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has extended the additional charge of the Chairman and Managing Director\u2019s post at Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) by three months. A. Robert J. Ravi, who also heads Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), will continue to hold both posts until January 14, 2027. MTNL disclosed the development to the stock exchanges. <\/p>\n<p>MTNL CMD extension and ACC approval<\/p>\n<p>According to the DoT order dated October 14, the extension follows a similar order issued on May 11 this year. It is an interim measure and remains subject to the approval of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has extended the additional charge of the Chairman and Managing Director\u2019s post at Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) by three months. A. Robert J. Ravi, who also heads Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), will continue to hold both posts until January 14, 2027. MTNL disclosed the development to the stock exchanges. MTNL CMD extension and ACC approval According to the DoT order dated October 14, the extension follows a similar order issued on May 11 this year. It is an interim measure and remains subject to the approval of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043933","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=1043933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043951,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043933\/revisions\/1043951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}