{"id":1045470,"date":"2026-10-28T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045470"},"modified":"2026-10-28T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:07:10","slug":"bsnl-to-seek-rs-75000-crore-from-finance-ministry-for-capex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/bsnl-to-seek-rs-75000-crore-from-finance-ministry-for-capex\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL to seek Rs 75,000 crore from finance ministry for capex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) plans to seek Rs 75,000 crore from the Finance Ministry to expand its network, accelerate the rollout of 5G services and improve connectivity across the country. According to a Department of Telecommunications (DoT) official, the proposed funding will be sought separately from the regular Budget allocation. It is aimed at strengthening BSNL\u2019s infrastructure, improving service quality and helping the loss-making operator achieve operational breakeven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) plans to seek Rs 75,000 crore from the Finance Ministry to expand its network, accelerate the rollout of 5G services and improve connectivity across the country. According to a Department of Telecommunications (DoT) official, the proposed funding will be sought separately from the regular Budget allocation. It is aimed at strengthening BSNL\u2019s infrastructure, improving service quality and helping the loss-making operator achieve operational breakeven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045470","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\/1045470","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045471,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045470\/revisions\/1045471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}