Minister of State for Communications and IT, Milind Deora has stated in reply to a Parliament question that BSNL and MTNL have posted loss of Rs. 8,851 crore and Rs. 4,109 crore respectively for the year 2011-12 as a result of stiff competition in the mobile sector, high staff cost and spectrum charges.
How can the Minister say that it is because of the anti-PSU policy of the Government and Mismanagement that the PSUs have come in to loss? But BSNL-MTNL workers and many right thinking people clearly understand the real reasons.
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
the so called L.P.G.POLICY OF UNION GOVT.IS FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING LOSS TO BOTH TELECOM PSU SICK SINCE LAST 3 DECADES .LEFT PARTIES ALWAYS VIRODH KA DIKHAVA KARTI HAI PAR SANSAD MAIN KADAK VIRODH PRAKAT NAHIN KAR TI HAI..IN TELECOM SEC FIRST PRIVATE CABLE DUCT WAS STARTED IN CHENNAI TELECOM CIRCLE ,WHY WAS NOT GIVEN CALL TO ALL INDIA PROTEST AGAISNT THIS ACTION.WHAT MASSAGE THEY GAVE TO THE PEOPLE OF CHENNAI OR ALL INDIA BASIS.IN TELECOM ALSO MTNL WAS BORN NO PROTEST MADE BY THEN MTNL UNION IN 1/01/1986 AND HISTORY REPEAT IN 2000 OCT.01 AGAIN ALL 3.5LAKHS WORKERS FORCED TO JOIN BSNL BY GIVING RS.1,000 at that time but ITS WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED SINCE LAST 12 YEARS..MERGE THIS TWO PSU TO ONE MEGA PSU AS R ASTRIYA SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED WITH FULL AUTONOMUS BODY AT THE EARLIEST. THANKING YOU SIR,
M.KHANDAGLE,
GMTD,
INDORE
(mp)
MOB.09406617317
Dear Comrade,
It seems that you are much confused about the developments that had taken place in BSNL. The Government and management tried thrice to implement VRS and disinvestment in BSNL. It is only due to the strong opposition of BSNLEU and other unions that the govt/management could not implement them. In most of the other PSUs disinvestment has already taken place. The formation of Joint Forum of BSNL Unions/Associations has now been strengthened by the joining of the MTNL unions/associations. The demonstration programmes on 17th and 18th December called by the Joint Forum has, in addition to the ITS issuee focussed on the financial viability of both BSNL and MTNL. The movement is going on the right direction and there is much appreciation from the workers.