{"id":305272,"date":"2018-11-07T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305272"},"modified":"2018-11-07T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:19:21","slug":"india-elected-as-a-member-of-the-international-telecommunications-union-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-elected-as-a-member-of-the-international-telecommunications-union-council\/","title":{"rendered":"India elected as a Member of the International Telecommunications Union Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-elected-as-a-member-of-the-international-telecommunications-union-council\/itu\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305273\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305273 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/itu-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/itu-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/itu-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/itu-696x362.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/itu.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a>India has been elected as a Member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council for another 4-year term (2019-2022). The elections to the Council were held during the ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 at Dubai, UAE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By securing 165 votes, India ranked third among the 13 countries elected to the Council from the Asia-Australia region, and eighth among the 48 countries elected to the Council globally. The ITU has 193 member states who elect representatives to the Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Commenting on this development, Manoj Sinha, Union Minister of State for Communications (Independent Charge) said, \u201cWe are delighted to see India as a member of the ITU Council once again. This is recognition of the role our country plays in the area of Telecom and ICT on the global stage\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India has been a regular member of the ITU Council since 1952, and has played an important role in harmonizing the contributions of member States from the region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has been elected as a Member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council for another 4-year term (2019-2022). The elections to the Council were held during the ongoing ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 at Dubai, UAE. By securing 165 votes, India ranked third among the 13 countries elected to the Council from the Asia-Australia region, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305275,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305272\/revisions\/305275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}