{"id":986719,"date":"2026-01-21T07:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986719"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:17:20","slug":"pnb-has-%e2%82%b9300-crore-exposure-to-vodafone-idea-not-exploring-further-lending-md-ashok-chandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/pnb-has-%e2%82%b9300-crore-exposure-to-vodafone-idea-not-exploring-further-lending-md-ashok-chandra\/","title":{"rendered":"PNB has \u20b9300 crore exposure to Vodafone Idea, not exploring further lending: MD Ashok Chandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second largest public sector lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) has an exposure of around \u20b9300 crore to Vodafone Idea Ltd and is not exploring any further lending to the telecom operator at present, the bank\u2019s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Ashok Chandra told ETBFSI on Monday during bank\u2019s Q3 FY26 earnings call. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPNB has \u20b9300 crore exposure to Vodafone, and as of now, we have not explored any further exposure in this particular account,\u201d Chandra said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second largest public sector lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) has an exposure of around \u20b9300 crore to Vodafone Idea Ltd and is not exploring any further lending to the telecom operator at present, the bank\u2019s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Ashok Chandra told ETBFSI on Monday during bank\u2019s Q3 FY26 earnings call. \u201cPNB has \u20b9300 crore exposure to Vodafone, and as of now, we have not explored any further exposure in this particular account,\u201d Chandra said.<\/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-986719","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\/986719","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=986719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}