{"id":995411,"date":"2026-02-27T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995411"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:32:28","slug":"bsnl-director-show-caused-for-absurd-trip-demands-jyotiraditya-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/bsnl-director-show-caused-for-absurd-trip-demands-jyotiraditya-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"BSNL director show-caused for &#8216;absurd&#8217; trip demands: Jyotiraditya Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Describing BSNL&#8217;s lavish arrangements for director Vivek Banzal&#8217;s now called-off trip to Prayagraj &#8220;improper and absurd&#8221;, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Wednesday said that &#8220;appropriate action&#8221; will be taken against the senior executive of the state-run company. &#8220;I have made it very clear that this is improper and a violation of all the established rules and traditions. It is completely unacceptable in 21st century. It is completely absurd and shocking. A show-cause notice has already been issued to the director with a seven-day response period,&#8221; the minister told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The lavish, four-page instructions detailing snan kits, personal toiletries, undergarments and other comforts, including a retinue of nearly 50 officials to attend to to Banzal and a chief general manager, had sparked concern over misuse of official resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Describing BSNL&#8217;s lavish arrangements for director Vivek Banzal&#8217;s now called-off trip to Prayagraj &#8220;improper and absurd&#8221;, communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Wednesday said that &#8220;appropriate action&#8221; will be taken against the senior executive of the state-run company. &#8220;I have made it very clear that this is improper and a violation of all the established rules and traditions. It is completely unacceptable in 21st century. It is completely absurd and shocking. A show-cause notice has already been issued to the director with a seven-day response period,&#8221; the minister told reporters. The lavish, four-page instructions detailing snan kits, personal toiletries, undergarments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995411","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}