{"id":197685,"date":"2022-07-28T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197685"},"modified":"2022-07-28T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:20:35","slug":"cabinet-approves-revival-package-of-bsnl-amounting-to-rs-1-64-lakh-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-revival-package-of-bsnl-amounting-to-rs-1-64-lakh-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves revival package of BSNL amounting to Rs 1.64 Lakh Cr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span><b>e \u201c<\/b><b>Cabinet approves revival package of BSNL amounting to Rs 1.64 Lakh Cr.<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 27th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Cabinet has approved the revival package of BSNL amounting to Rs 1.64 Lakh Crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key aspects of BSNL\u2019s revival package?\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><b>Upgrading BSNL Services<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Administrative allotment of Spectrum: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To improve existing services and provide 4G services, BSNL will be allotted Spectrum in the 900\/1800 MHz band. With this, BSNL will be able to compete in the market and provide high-speed data using their vast network including in rural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Financial support for capex: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">G<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">overnment will fund capital expenditure to BSNL for the deployment of indigenous 4G stack by the operator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Viability gap funding for rural wireline operations: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the commercial non-viability, BSNL has been providing wireline services in rural\/remote areas to meet the social objectives of the Government. The government will provide funds to BSNL as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/viability-gap-funding-vgf\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">viability gap funding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0commercially unviable rural wire-line operations done during 2014-15 to 2019-20.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>De-stressing the BSNL balance sheet<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Debt structuring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Government will provide a sovereign guarantee to BSNL and MTNL For raising long-term loans. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will help restructure existing debt and de-stressing the balance sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Financial support for AGR dues:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To further improve the balance sheet, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adjusted-gross-revenue-agr\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dues of BSNL will be settled by conversion into equity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Augmenting BSNL Fiber Network<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Merger of BBNL and BSNL:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To facilitate wider utilization of infrastructure laid under BharatNet, Bharat Broadband Network Ltd(BBNL) will be merged with BSNL. The infrastructure created under BharatNet will continue to be a national asset, accessible on a non-discriminatory basis to all the Telecom Service Providers<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCabinet approves revival package of BSNL amounting to Rs 1.64 Lakh Cr.\u201d published in PIB on 27th July 2022. What is the News? The Union Cabinet has approved the revival package of BSNL amounting to Rs 1.64 Lakh Crore. What are the key aspects of BSNL\u2019s revival&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-revival-package-of-bsnl-amounting-to-rs-1-64-lakh-cr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cabinet approves revival package of BSNL amounting to Rs 1.64 Lakh Cr.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-197685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704938708},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}