{"id":989098,"date":"2026-02-02T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989098"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:04:51","slug":"union-budget-2026-27-reinforces-confidence-in-indias-digital-economy-sunil-mittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/union-budget-2026-27-reinforces-confidence-in-indias-digital-economy-sunil-mittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Budget 2026-27 reinforces confidence in India&#8217;s digital economy: Sunil Mittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union Budget 2026-27 emphasises bolstering infrastructure and logistics sectors with a focus on energy-efficiency, while an impetus to the data centre ecosystem will reinforce confidence in India&#8217;s burgeoning digital economy, said Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder &amp; chairman, Bharti Enterprises, on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Terming it a bold Budget that combines growth with inclusion, Mittal said in a statement, &#8220;The strong emphasis on skilling, alongside sustained investments in science, innovation, and research are timely and will strengthen domestic capabilities, advancing import substitution in critical sectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union Budget 2026-27 emphasises bolstering infrastructure and logistics sectors with a focus on energy-efficiency, while an impetus to the data centre ecosystem will reinforce confidence in India&#8217;s burgeoning digital economy, said Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder &amp; chairman, Bharti Enterprises, on Sunday. Terming it a bold Budget that combines growth with inclusion, Mittal said in a statement, &#8220;The strong emphasis on skilling, alongside sustained investments in science, innovation, and research are timely and will strengthen domestic capabilities, advancing import substitution in critical sectors.&#8221;<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989098","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=989098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}