{"id":946632,"date":"2025-07-15T09:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946632"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:04:25","slug":"from-50k-to-1-5-lakh-delhi-bjp-govt-allows-exorbitant-mobile-handset-budgets-for-ministers-bureaucrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/15\/from-50k-to-1-5-lakh-delhi-bjp-govt-allows-exorbitant-mobile-handset-budgets-for-ministers-bureaucrats\/","title":{"rendered":"From 50k to 1.5 lakh: Delhi BJP govt allows exorbitant mobile handset budgets for Ministers, bureaucrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has revised its policy on mobile handset allowances, significantly increasing the sanctioned amount for its top office bearers. <\/p>\n<p>According to a directive issued by the General Administration Department issued on July 9, the Chief Minister can now purchase a mobile handset worth up to Rs 1.5 lakh, while Cabinet Ministers will be allowed to spend up to Rs 1.25 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has revised its policy on mobile handset allowances, significantly increasing the sanctioned amount for its top office bearers. According to a directive issued by the General Administration Department issued on July 9, the Chief Minister can now purchase a mobile handset worth up to Rs 1.5 lakh, while Cabinet Ministers will be allowed to spend up to Rs 1.25 lakh.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946632","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\/946632","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=946632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}