The government\u2019s inability to take hard decisions on time has come back to haunt it. More than two decades back, it had toyed with the idea of merging state-owned telecom services firms MTNL and BSNL. However, this was never pushed to its logical conclusion. The other plan was also never pursued seriously: that of allowing MTNL to expand beyond Delhi and Mumbai. A stitch in time saves nine but in this case the wounds were left to bleed endlessly. Years of indifference have led to State Bank of India declaring MTNL\u2019s account as a non-performing asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The government\u2019s inability to take hard decisions on time has come back to haunt it. More than two decades back, it had toyed with the idea of merging state-owned telecom services firms MTNL and BSNL. However, this was never pushed to its logical conclusion. The other plan was also never pursued seriously: that of allowing MTNL to expand beyond Delhi and Mumbai. A stitch in time saves nine but in this case the wounds were left to bleed endlessly. Years of indifference have led to State Bank of India declaring MTNL\u2019s account as a non-performing asset.<\/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-866137","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\/866137","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=866137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}