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DELHI: Communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on told the
Lok Sabha that the ministry on an average approves 5,000 call
interception requests a month based on "justified grounds" made by
various law enforcement agencies.
Telecom service providers in India had a total debt of Rs 2,42,896 crore on their books in 2013-14, communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in response to a question in the Lok Sabha.
The share of public-sector firms Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) and
Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) stood at Rs 18,579 crore or 7.6 per cent of
the total debt, Prasad said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.