{"id":898471,"date":"2025-01-22T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=898471"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:39:32","slug":"telcos-likely-to-get-waiver-on-agr-dues-modi-govt-to-unveil-relief-package-in-union-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/22\/telcos-likely-to-get-waiver-on-agr-dues-modi-govt-to-unveil-relief-package-in-union-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos likely to get waiver on AGR dues, Modi govt to unveil relief package in Union Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering a significant relief package for the telecom sector, including a 50 per cent waiver on interest and a complete 100 per cent waiver on penalties related to adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. <\/p>\n<p>The government may announce the relief package in the Union Budget for 2025-26. <\/p>\n<p>This potential relief, long demanded by the industry, could provide much needed breathing space to cash-strapped operators such as Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, whose combined liabilities exceed \u20b91.2 lakh crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is considering a significant relief package for the telecom sector, including a 50 per cent waiver on interest and a complete 100 per cent waiver on penalties related to adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. The government may announce the relief package in the Union Budget for 2025-26. This potential relief, long demanded by the industry, could provide much needed breathing space to cash-strapped operators such as Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, whose combined liabilities exceed \u20b91.2 lakh crore.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898471","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=898471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}