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Parliament panel wants govt to slash levies on debt-ridden telecom companies

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySaubhadra Chatterji and Navadha Pandey
Jan 01, 2018 11:21 PM IST

The panel, headed by former law minister Veerappa Moily, also wants sharing of networks among all telecom companies.

A parliamentary panel wants the government to slash levies on telecom companies to ensure faster expansion of telecom and digital networks, which is essential for the success of the Digital India programme.

This is to ensure faster expansion of telecom and digital networks.
This is to ensure faster expansion of telecom and digital networks.

The parliamentary standing committee on finance, in a draft titled Transformation towards a digital economy, says: “Festering issues relating to the debt-ridden telecom sector (which is relatively in the nascent stage) with a levy imposed in the range of 25-29% of revenue, require to be squarely addressed on urgent basis. All hurdles on this count should be removed forthwith so that telecom/digital network can expand fast while ensuring service quality to the public.”

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The panel, headed by former law minister Veerappa Moily, also wants sharing of networks among all telecom companies, including those in the public sector, and “right of way” from state agencies for telecom service providers while building their infrastructure.

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