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Communication gap behind DoT seeking Rs 3 trn from non-telco PSUs: Pradhan He said parallel to discussions with the DoT, the Supreme Court has been approached on the issue Current Affairs : The Department of Telecommunications looking for almost Rs 3 trillion in duty from non-telecom PSUs, for example, GAIL, Oil India Ltd and PowerGrid, was an aftereffect of “correspondence hole” as these organizations don’t owe any such sum, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Thursday. Following the October 24 Supreme Court deciding that non-telecom incomes of telecom firms, for example, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea ought to be incorporated for thinking about installments of government contribution, the telecom office looked for Rs 1.72 trillion from gas utility GAIL India Ltd, Rs 48,000 crore from OIL, Rs 40,000 crore from PowerGrid and raised comparative requests from RailTel and other open part endeavors (PSUs). The administration’s interest from such organizations expanded c...

DoT may push deadline for submitting auctioneer bids for 5G spectrum sale The deadline of September 25 for submission of bids could be extended by a week or 10 days as DoT would look into aspects which were flagged as concerns by potential bidders Current Affairs  :- The telecom division is probably going to push, by a week or 10 days, the due date for accommodation of offers for reserving in an organization that will be entrusted to direct range sell off in different groups, including 5G, as it intends to change qualification standards to guarantee most extreme investment by imminent barkers. The legislature had welcomed offers for choice of a salesperson, for the closeout of 8000 MHz of range at a beginning cost of once again Rs 5.7 trillion. The first due date for accommodation of offers was September 25, and that for finish of barker was October 10. The Department of Telecom (DoT) is, in any case, presently reevaluating the qualification criteria following input...