{"id":995310,"date":"2026-02-27T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995310"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:05:04","slug":"bsnl-faces-outrage-after-order-for-toiletries-and-perks-for-director-visit-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/bsnl-faces-outrage-after-order-for-toiletries-and-perks-for-director-visit-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL faces outrage after order for toiletries and perks for director visit leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public utility BSNL was caught with its pants down when a media leak revealed an official order asking subordinates to arrange towels, soap, toothpaste and even undergarments for a visiting director. <\/p>\n<p>Union communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said he had served a show-cause notice on BSNL director (consumer fixed access) Vivek Banzal over the \u201cbeyond absurd\u201d and \u201cshocking\u201d order, relating to his now-deferred Allahabad visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public utility BSNL was caught with its pants down when a media leak revealed an official order asking subordinates to arrange towels, soap, toothpaste and even undergarments for a visiting director. Union communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said he had served a show-cause notice on BSNL director (consumer fixed access) Vivek Banzal over the \u201cbeyond absurd\u201d and \u201cshocking\u201d order, relating to his now-deferred Allahabad visit.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995310","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=995310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}