{"id":8221,"date":"2022-11-17T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:14:42","slug":"the-telecom-regulatory-authority-of-india-trai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-telecom-regulatory-authority-of-india-trai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About\u00a0The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In the year 2022, TRAI has also completed 25-years of its existence. The Conference is organized as a part its year-long silver Jubilee celebration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is TRAI?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a regulatory body set up by the Government of India under section 3 of the\u00a0<strong>Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>regulator of the telecommunications sector<\/strong>\u00a0in India. It consists of a\u00a0<strong>Chairperson and not more than two full-time members<\/strong>\u00a0and not more than two part-time members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The TRAI Act was amended in 2000, establishing a Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set up to adjudicate any dispute between a licensor and a licensee, between two or more service providers, between a service provider and a group of consumers, and to hear and dispose of appeals against any direction, decision or order of TRAI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition<\/strong>: The Tribunal consists of a Chairperson and two Members appointed by the Central Government.\n<ul>\n<li>The Chairperson should be or should have been a Judge of the Supreme Court or the Chief Justice of a High Court.<\/li>\n<li>A Member should have held the post of Secretary to the Government of India or any equivalent post in the Central Government or the State Government for a period of not less than two years or a person who is well versed in the field of technology, telecommunication, industry, commerce or administration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1876464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAI is the regulator of the telecommunications sector in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}