BSNL Employees Union and the Forum of BSNL Unions and Associations have been continuously focussing and opposing the decisions of the UPA government granting freebies and favour to the private telecom companies at the cost of the telecom PSUs, BSNL and MTNL.
Now the CAG has released a report fully justifying our complaints. It has stated that the UPA government reduced the penalty of about Rs. 600 crores to be paid by the private telecom companies to the government to a mere Rs. 5 crore. The penalty was imposed since the private companies did not implement the stipulation of providing services in the rural areas which are funded by USOF. 14 companies including the Reliance have benefitted from the reduction in the penalty.