Sunil Mittal, K M Birla meet FM on telecom crisis as AGR deadline closes in

It is learnt that the two telcos have proposed a few options to the Union government for consideration

Almost three weeks after the Union Budget, two top representatives of India Inc visited the North Block office of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday. Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal and Vodafone Idea chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla were not there to talk about issues related to the Budget, but to seek relief for the deeply stressed telecom sector.

For Birla, this was the second straight day of reaching out to the government. On Tuesday, he along with Vodafone Idea CEO Ravinder Takkar had met top officials of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), including secretary Anshu Prakash, seeking relief from coercive action