The India Post has decided to float tenders for connectivity to its 1.6 lakh Post offices through out the country.They want 30,000 MPLS links in urban and semi-urban areas and 1,30,000 links in rural and deep rural areas.The project may be of about Rs.2000 crore or so.
This is a good opportunity for the BSNL to get these tenders, since BSNL is the only company which has got the capacity to provide the connectivity to all these urban and rural areas at present. Further, both are under the Ministry of Communications.
However, mutual negotiated agreement will be the best solution as has been done by BSNL with Income Tax, SBI etc.
BSNL management has to take immediate action to ensure that either through negotiated settlement or through tenders the project should be got for BSNL. It will help the ailing BSNL.Any delay or complacency on the part of BSNL management will see a repeat of how BSNL lost the Railway tender for one lakh connections.