Aruna Sundararajan, secretary of IT and electronics, will now be taking full charge of the department of telecom (DoT), which till now was an additional charge given to her in May.
A notification to this effect was issued by the department of personnel, according to which Sundararajan will be at the helm of telecom department, filling a vacancy created by posting of former Telecom Secretary JS Deepak to the WTO as India’s representative. After Deepak, power secretary PK Pujari was handling DoT as additional charge for a few months before Sundararajan was brought in.
One of the key challenges ahead of Sundararajan is the critical condition of the financial health of the sector, for which Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha and the secretary will be meeting promoters of leading Indian carriers.
The meeting – to be attended by Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal, Reliance Communications Chairman Anil Ambani and chief executives of Reliance Jio, Tata Teleservices and Idea Cellular – is part of deliberations on solutions for the massive stress on the sector's financials. The banking sector puts the debt associated with telecom at Rs.7.29 lakh crore.
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