{"id":86323,"date":"2019-10-24T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:55:21","slug":"merger-of-bsnl-and-mtnl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/merger-of-bsnl-and-mtnl\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger of BSNL and MTNL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Cabinet has approved the revival plan of Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited(BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam limited(MTNL) and in-principle merger of the two.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why this revival plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>BSNL and MTNL are government owned telecommunications company.&nbsp;<\/li><li>MTNL provides telephony services in Delhi and Mumbai, while BSNL is present in the rest of the circles in the country.<\/li><li>The revival package was needed as the two PSUs comes are facing financial stress due to stiff competition and reduction in tariffs.<\/li><li>The competition in the mobile segment, high employee costs and absence of 4G services has also progressively eroded the competitive strength of BSNL and MTNL.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the revival plan:<\/strong>The revival plan includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Merger of BSNL and MTNL<\/li><li>administrative allotment of spectrum for 4G services,<\/li><li>debt restructuring by raising of bonds with sovereign guarantee extended by the Centre&nbsp;<\/li><li>reducing employee costs through a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS)&nbsp;<\/li><li>monetisation of assets.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Cabinet has approved the revival plan of Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited(BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam limited(MTNL) and in-principle merger of the two. Facts: Why this revival plan: BSNL and MTNL are government owned telecommunications company.&nbsp; MTNL provides telephony services in Delhi and Mumbai, while BSNL is present in the rest of the circles in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/merger-of-bsnl-and-mtnl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merger of BSNL and MTNL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3127],"tags":[3370,3896,3897],"class_list":["post-86323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-bsnl","tag-mtnl","tag-revival-plan","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780192,"cached_date":1704939359},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86323","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}