Communications Minister Kapil Sibal has now accused NDA government of handing over the 773 acres of VSNL land for Tatas at the time of VSNL sale to Tata Telecommunications. BSNLEU had several times raised the issue of undervaluing the sale and in fact it was actually a ‘gift VSNL to Tata’. Now the skeletons in the cup board are exposed one after another. Though the 773 acre land was not given to the Tata, the latter was using it without any rent or anything all these years. If the issue of 2G scam had not come, gradually it would have gone to Tata and nobody will know. This is one instance where the Government was handing over property worth thousands of crores of rupees to the big business free.

DOT has now appointed a high power committee to look in to the matter and submit its report before 31st March 2011.