{"id":967269,"date":"2025-10-10T09:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967269"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:16:50","slug":"govt-not-looking-to-raise-stake-in-vodafone-idea-telecom-miniser-jyotiraditya-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/10\/govt-not-looking-to-raise-stake-in-vodafone-idea-telecom-miniser-jyotiraditya-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt not looking to raise stake in Vodafone Idea: Telecom miniser Jyotiraditya Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India is currently not having any plans to raise stake in cash-strapped telecom company Vodafone Idea, said Union telecom minister Jyotiradity Scindia on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the India Mobile Congress 2025, Scindia ruled out any possibility to raise ownership in the telco beyond the existing 49%, emphasizing that such a move would transform the private telecom operator into a public sector undertaking (PSU). <\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Idea shares were trading at Rs 9.11 apiece on the BSE, up 0.77% as of 12.10 PM on October 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India is currently not having any plans to raise stake in cash-strapped telecom company Vodafone Idea, said Union telecom minister Jyotiradity Scindia on Thursday. Speaking at the India Mobile Congress 2025, Scindia ruled out any possibility to raise ownership in the telco beyond the existing 49%, emphasizing that such a move would transform the private telecom operator into a public sector undertaking (PSU). Vodafone Idea shares were trading at Rs 9.11 apiece on the BSE, up 0.77% as of 12.10 PM on October 9.<\/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-967269","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\/967269","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=967269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}