{"id":798078,"date":"2021-02-23T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/02\/23\/former-trai-chief-rahul-khullar-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:08:14","slug":"former-trai-chief-rahul-khullar-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/02\/23\/former-trai-chief-rahul-khullar-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trai chief Rahul Khullar passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Rahul Khullar passed away Tuesday morning following a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Khullar, a 1975-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer served as a secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and later appointed as the telecom regulator in May 2012 replacing JS Sarma.<\/p>\n<p>Succeeded by a 1978 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer Ram Sewak Sharma in July 2015, Khullar spent a three-year long tenure at a time when the telecom sector was plagued with uncertainty in the aftermath of the 2G spectrum scam.<\/p>\n<p>He was a post graduate in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Rahul Khullar passed away Tuesday morning following a long illness. Khullar, a 1975-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer served as a secretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and later appointed as the telecom regulator in May 2012 replacing JS Sarma. Succeeded by a 1978 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer Ram Sewak Sharma in July 2015, Khullar spent a three-year long tenure at a time when the telecom sector was plagued with uncertainty in the aftermath of the 2G spectrum scam. He was a post graduate in Economics from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798078","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=798078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}