{"id":997935,"date":"2026-03-13T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997935"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:30:45","slug":"cags-bsnl-loss-estimate-from-reliance-jio-deal-misinterpreted-rectified-now-pemmasani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/cags-bsnl-loss-estimate-from-reliance-jio-deal-misinterpreted-rectified-now-pemmasani\/","title":{"rendered":"CAG&#8217;s BSNL loss estimate from Reliance Jio deal misinterpreted; rectified now: Pemmasani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The CAG&#8217;s estimate that the government has suffered revenue loss due to non-implementation of an agreement with Reliance Jio was based on a misinterpretation of a clause, and the error has been rectified now, Minister of State for Telecom Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), in a report last year, had said that the state-run firm BSNL failed to enforce the master service agreement (MSA) with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL) and did not bill for the additional technology used on BSNL&#8217;s shared passive infrastructure, resulting in loss of \u20b91,757.76 crore and penal interest thereon, between May 2014 to March 2024 to the government exchequer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The CAG&#8217;s estimate that the government has suffered revenue loss due to non-implementation of an agreement with Reliance Jio was based on a misinterpretation of a clause, and the error has been rectified now, Minister of State for Telecom Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said on Thursday. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), in a report last year, had said that the state-run firm BSNL failed to enforce the master service agreement (MSA) with Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL) and did not bill for the additional technology used on BSNL&#8217;s shared passive infrastructure, resulting in loss of \u20b91,757.76 [&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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997935","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\/997935","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=997935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}