{"id":897062,"date":"2025-01-18T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=897062"},"modified":"2025-01-18T08:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:56:56","slug":"in-big-relief-for-telcos-govt-weighs-rs-1-lakh-crore-agr-dues-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/18\/in-big-relief-for-telcos-govt-weighs-rs-1-lakh-crore-agr-dues-waiver\/","title":{"rendered":"In big relief for telcos, govt weighs Rs 1 lakh crore AGR dues waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is considering a proposal to waive 50% of interest and 100% of penalties and interest on penalties that make up a bulk of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues that were levied on telcos like Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel after the Supreme Court order of 2019. Such a move, if implemented, would mark a watershed for the telecom business in India and will go a long way toward ensuring that the market doesn\u2019t end up as a private sector duopoly, analysts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is considering a proposal to waive 50% of interest and 100% of penalties and interest on penalties that make up a bulk of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues that were levied on telcos like Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel after the Supreme Court order of 2019. Such a move, if implemented, would mark a watershed for the telecom business in India and will go a long way toward ensuring that the market doesn\u2019t end up as a private sector duopoly, analysts said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-897062","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\/897062","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}