{"id":955237,"date":"2025-08-16T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955237"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:06:08","slug":"govt-lines-up-rs-47000-crore-capex-to-boost-bsnl-network-dot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/16\/govt-lines-up-rs-47000-crore-capex-to-boost-bsnl-network-dot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt lines up Rs 47,000 crore capex to boost BSNL network: DoT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has prepared a fresh capital expenditure plan of nearly Rs 47,000 crore to expand and upgrade Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd\u2019s (BSNL) network, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) announced on social media platform X on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The move follows BSNL\u2019s record investment of Rs 25,000 crore in the past year, which was used to install one lakh towers for 4G mobile services. \u201cWe have another close to Rs 47,000 crore capex plan in place for BSNL. Meanwhile, BSNL has done its highest-ever capex of Rs 25,000 crore during last year,\u201d the DoT said, citing Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has prepared a fresh capital expenditure plan of nearly Rs 47,000 crore to expand and upgrade Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd\u2019s (BSNL) network, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) announced on social media platform X on Thursday. The move follows BSNL\u2019s record investment of Rs 25,000 crore in the past year, which was used to install one lakh towers for 4G mobile services. \u201cWe have another close to Rs 47,000 crore capex plan in place for BSNL. Meanwhile, BSNL has done its highest-ever capex of Rs 25,000 crore during last year,\u201d the DoT said, citing Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.<\/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-955237","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\/955237","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=955237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}