One of the top officers of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) who resisted Telecom Minister A Raja’s attempts to grant the controversial licences to nine operators has blown the whistle. In an exclusive interview to The Financial Express, his first to any media since retiring from office on December 31, 2007, former DoT secretary D S Mathur has said that he had resisted the Minister’s attempts to grant the licences without first coming out with an “equitable and transparent policy”.
“When the Minister (Raja) did not listen to my counsel, I told the joint secretary concerned that I would not sign any files on licensing matters, therefore no files should be put up before me,” Mathur said over the phone from Bhopal.
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