The penalties for non-verification of subscriber imposed upon telecom companies are increasing every year. It was Rs. 7 crore in 2007 but has increased to Rs. 101 crore in 2014. All the major telecom companies, including BSNL are penalised on this account.

The penalty imposed in 2014 for the various companies are given below: Bharti Airtel ( Rs. 73.04 crore), RCom (Rs.54.96), Aircel (Rs. 35.61 crore), BSNL (Rs. 18.51 crore) and MTNL (Rs. 1.93 crore).

Bharti Airtel has been penalised a total of Rs. 3,098.7 crore, while BSNL has been penalised Rs. 3,291.35 crore  since 2007.

Leave alone the private companies, who are not verifying the subscriber particulars in their anxiety to get more and more profit, whatever be the rules. But why BSNL has so much unverified subscribers? This need to be enquired, because the cash strapped BSNL can not have the funds for this luxury of penalty. BSNL Management has to find out why this is happening.