MTNL zooms 9% as govt defers merger with BSNL; stock up 26% so far in April

The merger of BSNL and MTNL, approved by the Union cabinet in October 2019, was a part of the revival package for both the telecom companies

MTNL shares zoomed 9 per cent to Rs 26.8 per share on the BSE on Thursday after the government deferred the merger of state-run telecom firms BSNL and MTNL due to financial reasons.

At 10:20 AM, shares of the state-run telco was up 8 per cent at Rs 28.2 apiece on the BSE as against a 0.6 per cent fall in the benchmark Sensex index. About 4.9 million shares had changed hands on the NSE and BSE till the time of writing of this report. With today's gains, the shares have climbed 26 per cent so far in April as against