{"id":998758,"date":"2026-03-20T09:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998758"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:39:18","slug":"every-criticism-made-against-bsnl-is-incorrect-says-fm-nirmala-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/20\/every-criticism-made-against-bsnl-is-incorrect-says-fm-nirmala-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Every criticism made against BSNL is \u2018incorrect\u2019, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has defended the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), arguing that every criticism made against the telecom carrier is incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn BSNL, I must respectfully say that every criticism made against it is incorrect,\u201d Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, adding that the public sector telco was \u201cpushed into a critical condition\u201d earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was in the ICU, and we have revived it and brought it back on track. The Union Cabinet has approved revival packages for BSNL.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has defended the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), arguing that every criticism made against the telecom carrier is incorrect. \u201cOn BSNL, I must respectfully say that every criticism made against it is incorrect,\u201d Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, adding that the public sector telco was \u201cpushed into a critical condition\u201d earlier. \u201cIt was in the ICU, and we have revived it and brought it back on track. The Union Cabinet has approved revival packages for BSNL.\u201d<\/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-998758","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\/998758","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=998758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}