GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO-187 ANSWERED ON-05.12.2014 Revamping of BSNL 187 . Smt. Vijla Sathyananth Wil the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state: (a) whether BSNL would be revamped, rejuvenated and strengthened to avoid the state of being sick; (b) whether Government would provide the revival fund which was proposed earlier; (c) whether to improve les income generating rural areas, compensation for ural services would be met by Government, if so, by when; (d) the reasons for not providing waiver to BSNL for spectrum; and (e) the maner in which BSNL would met enormous establishment cost without healthy income, the steps taken therefor? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD) (a) to (e) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House. STATEMENT TO BE LAID ON THE TABLE OF THE RAJYA SABHA IN RESPECT OF PARTS (a) TO (e) OF RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 187 FOR 5th DECEMBER, 2014 REGARDING “REVAMPING OF BSNL”. (a) & (b) Government is conscious of the financial distres in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). Government has taken various measures for the revival of BSNL. These measures include: (i) Waiver of Government loan to BSNL involving an amount of Rs.141 crores. (i) Financial suport of Rs.6724.51 crores to BSNL on surender of Broadband Wireles Aces (BWA) spectrum in 6 service areas. BSNL is preparing a revival plan for increasing revenue potential, identifying busines oportunites, organizational restructuring and training to enable it o grow into customer-centric company with expertise in marketing and customer services delivery and developing human resources strategy in line with restructured organizational vision. (c) Based on recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), financial asistance of Rs. 150 crore was released in financial year 2013-14 as suport for ural wireline conections instaled before 1.4.202. (d) On a request for eimbursement of amount paid as one time spectrum charges in 2010 for 3G and Broadband Wireles Aces (BWA) spectrum, Government decided that he conditon of payment of one-time spectrum fe at a price equal to the highest bid, as determined through auction of 3G and BWA spectrum was incorporated in the Notice Invitng Aplications (NIA) for the auction in 2010.Thereby, the request for eimbursement of the amount paid by BSNL was contrary to the agred terms and conditons and could not be acepted in 2010. However in 2014, the proposal for financial suport of Rs.6724.51 crores to BSNL on surender of BWA spectrum in 6 service areas was aproved by Government. (e) As on 30.09.2014, BSNL has workforce strength of 2,32,14 employes of which over 67% are over the age of 50 years. Due to the large anticipated retirements in the next 10 years, the employe expenses are likely to reduce over time. In the interim, to provide suport for eduction in employe expenses in BSNL, a proposal for anual financial suport is under consideration of Government. BSNL is also taking several steps to enhance its revenues through investments to strengthen its network and focus on customer care and service delivery to improve quality of service. The investment projects being undertaken by BSNL include: • Augmentation of its mobile network as part of its Phase-VI Project o create aditonal capacity of 15 milion lines at an estimated cost of Rs.4804.7 crores. This wil result in aditon of 1421 2G sites and 10605 3G sites acros the country. • Replacement of the entire network of wireline local exchanges by Internet Protocol (IP) enabled exchanges and deployment of Next Generation Network (NGN) equipment based on the latest architecture gradualy to replace entire legacy telephone exchanges at an estimated cost of Rs. 60 crores. • Migration of entire C-DOT (Centre for Development of Telematics) legacy telephone exchanges with technology solutions being developed by C-DOT at an estimated cost of Rs. 350 crores for which MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) has ben signed betwen C-DOT and BSNL. • Government has asigned the work of providing mobile conectivity in 219 identified locations in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) afected areas through BSNL at an estimated cost of Rs. 3567.58 crores. • Government has asigned the work of providing mobile conectivity to uncovered vilages in Arunachal Pradesh and two districts of Asam to BSNL on nomination basis at an estimated cost of Rs.1975.38 crores. *** bsnlnewsbyashokhindocha.blogspot
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