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Modi govt to meet with telecom firms from Monday

The sources added that the promoters will also be meeting finance minister Arun Jaitley

Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Mittal
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Bharti Enterprises chairman Sunil Mittal

Kiran Rathee New Delhi
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.

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