AGR dues: Voda-Idea urges SC to review dismissal of plea

In July, Bench concluded that what telecom firms really wanted, under guise of correcting ‘arithmetical errors’, was recalculation of their AGR that runs into crores of rupees

Telecom major Voda-Idea has urged the Supreme Court to review its dismissal of their request for an opportunity to place grievances about “arithmetical errors” in their Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues before the Department of Telecom (DoT). A Special Bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, S. Abdul Nazeer and M.R. Shah concluded on July 23 last that what Voda and other telecommunication companies such as Airtel and Tata really wanted, under the guise of correcting “arithmetical errors”, was a recalculation of their AGR which ran into crores of rupees. In a September 2020 judgment, the court ordered that the annual 10% instalments for payment of the AGR dues would commence from April 1, 2021 up to March 31, 2031.