Government to meet with telecom firms from Monday

June 10, 2017 08:54

As telecom operators meet the government and sectoral regulator next week amid the problem of financial stress, the industry is likely to press for key demands like reduction of levies, lower goods and services tax rate and ease of doing business, reports Kiran Rathee in Business Standard.

The meetings will kick off from Monday when the inter-ministerial group (IMG), which was formed to resolve the financial stress of the sector, will meet representatives from Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Aircel, and MTS.

The panel will meet Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Reliance Jio executives on Thursday.

On the same day, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman R S Sharma will meet the chief executives of the telecom companies.

IMG will meet state-run BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) and MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd) on June 17 (Saturday).

Sources said after the meetings of government and industry officials, telecom minister Manoj Sinha will meet the promoters of telecom firms on June 22.

Till now, Bharti Enterprises founder and chairman Sunil Mittal, Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani, Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran have confirmed their presence for the meeting.

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