India ranks 129th among the world nations in the ranking of quality improvement in information and communication technologies as per report of the International Telecom Union (ITU). Denmark is first followed by Korea, Sweden and Ice Land and UK. US ranks 14th.

The Government, the Telecom companies, including BSNL and MTNL, and the workers have to jointly make all efforts for providing a better service to the people. In this connection, the Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked reports from BSNL and MTNL. Calling reports is not sufficient. Government should financially assist BSNL and MTNL to procure equipment as also waive the licence fee, taxes etc. as a one time measure. The Government is proposing to waive tax arrears of Vodafone and Nokia. Why not these benefits be given to BSNL and MTNL also, the government’s own companies?