{"id":947136,"date":"2025-07-17T06:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947136"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:05:58","slug":"et-graphics-mtnls-debt-crisis-deepens-despite-revival-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/17\/et-graphics-mtnls-debt-crisis-deepens-despite-revival-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"ET Graphics: MTNL\u2019s debt crisis deepens despite revival efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) on Tuesday informed stock exchanges that it has defaulted on loans totalling Rs 8,585 crore from seven public sector banks. <\/p>\n<p>The loss-making state-owned telco has been consistently defaulting on its debt obligations. Its shrinking market share and operational challenges have hurt its ability to pay employees, vendors and pensioners despite several government-led revival attempts, including plans for asset monetisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) on Tuesday informed stock exchanges that it has defaulted on loans totalling Rs 8,585 crore from seven public sector banks. The loss-making state-owned telco has been consistently defaulting on its debt obligations. Its shrinking market share and operational challenges have hurt its ability to pay employees, vendors and pensioners despite several government-led revival attempts, including plans for asset monetisation.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947136","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\/947136","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=947136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}