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Minister of State of Finance, Shri Jayant Sinha informed Lok Sabha on 24th April 2015 that there will be no disinvestment of BSNL and Air India at present. He also stated that the employees in both PSUs are strongly opposing disinvestment.
Our opposition against disinvestment is noted by the government. Any move to disinvest BSNL will be against the assurances given by the government to the Joint Forum of BSNL Unions. But however, the workers have to be ready for strong struggle, if any move starts for disinvestment.
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We all waitng for positive news.. Bsnl is our life and feature sir
MPs discuss BSNL revival
roadmap with Prasad
Press Trust of India | New Delhi Apr 25, 2015
05:32 PM IST
A group of parliamentarians cutting across
parties met Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
and telecom officials to discuss issues being
faced by BSNL and the competition posed by
private players.
“MPs who attended yesterday’s meeting gave
overwhelming support to Mr (Ravi Shankar)
Prasad’s initiative to revive BSNL. They were
not only concerned about the deteriorating
quality of BSNL services, but even apprehended
private players’ role in obstructing growth of
BSNL which enjoyed a lead position in the
sector till 2004,” an official statement stated
today.
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The MPs in attendance were from Rajasthan,
Himachal Pradesh and North Eastern states.
The meeting was first in a series of such
deliberations to make telecom officials directly
answerable to parliamentary representatives so
as to have a first-hand account of public sector
player’s performance, problems faced and
possible solutions.
The Telecom Ministry will be shortly holding a
meeting of all interested parties to speed up the
process of improving the quality and reach of
telecom signal from BSNL, the statement
added.
The Telecom Minister directed the Department
of Telecom to convene more such meetings so
that Members of Parliament can get to raise
issues directly with officials concerned.
The MPs, on their part, chipped in, offering land
for setting up BSNL towers and providing funds
from MPLAD scheme for this purpose.
The MPs were apprised about the new
initiatives being taken by BSNL to improve its
viability, which include wifi and data centre
services and introduction of next generation
network switching technology.
“It was pointed out that four million lines in
phase-I will have NGN (next generation network)
by the end of this fiscal while a total number of
14 million ports are planned. Some 2,500
hotspots are planned for the year of which 41
hotspots have already been deployed,” the
statement read.
Sir again wil govt disinvest for bsnl what they r up to?
We are opposed to disinvest and will fight if any such move is afoot.
Thanku sir…. I hope may 1st on delhi meetng we wil get gud news….