{"id":994973,"date":"2026-02-26T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994973"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:54:42","slug":"hair-oil-toothpaste-and-50-aides-bsnl-directors-prayagraj-itinerary-sparks-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/hair-oil-toothpaste-and-50-aides-bsnl-directors-prayagraj-itinerary-sparks-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Oil, Toothpaste, and 50 Aides: BSNL Director\u2019s Prayagraj itinerary sparks outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BSNL director is facing intense backlash after his itinerary for a visit to Prayagraj went viral. The two-day trip itinerary had included nearly 50 officials and elaborate arrangements and supplies for the official \u2014 including arranging for hair oil, underwear and combs. Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia later slammed the \u201cabsurd and shocking\u201d demands as a major \u201cviolation of rules\u201d and \u201cunacceptable conduct\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The now-viral order had assigned around 20 tasks to his \u2018team\u2019 of 50 officials, outlined tourism plans and a massive list of items required during the two days. Vivek Banzal \u2014 a director of the BSNL Board \u2014 would begin his Prayagraj visit by bathing in the Sangam, taking a boat ride, and visiting Bade Hanuman Mandir, Akshayavat and Patalpuri temples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BSNL director is facing intense backlash after his itinerary for a visit to Prayagraj went viral. The two-day trip itinerary had included nearly 50 officials and elaborate arrangements and supplies for the official \u2014 including arranging for hair oil, underwear and combs. Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia later slammed the \u201cabsurd and shocking\u201d demands as a major \u201cviolation of rules\u201d and \u201cunacceptable conduct\u201d. The now-viral order had assigned around 20 tasks to his \u2018team\u2019 of 50 officials, outlined tourism plans and a massive list of items required during the two days. Vivek Banzal \u2014 a director of the BSNL Board [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994973","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=994973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}