Govt May Consider Quashing Telecom Circles as Part of NTP 2018: Report

The Indian government may consider quashing telecom circles in order to work towards the concept of one nation, one network and one licence. In order to initiate work around the matter, the newly appointed Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan has last week met telecom operators, infrastructure providers and handset makers, according to a report by Business Line.

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The report said that the secretary has assured the telecom industry that the government is committed to introducing changes that will lead to the ease of doing business in India.

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The Indian government is expected to bring out the draft of the new telecom policy by December-end and may introduce the final policy in March 2018. “We see the new NTP as part of continuing ease of doing business, of building a Digital India towards achieving the larger vision of a prosperous India,” Sundararajan recently said.

According to her, India is not just following but setting best practices in many areas in terms of New Telecom Policy 2018. “I think as we go into the New Telecom Policy, we must remember, is part of a much larger vision that the PM and the government have articulated for India because India is attempting to do nothing short of charting a new digital strategy for growth,” Sundararajan recently said. “This is something where India is in many areas is actually ahead of the rest of the world.

The official also said that the NTP is going to be a key building block in achieving the vision to grow at about 10 per cent from the current rate of about 7.6 per cent.