BSNL in red for first time

The inevitable has happened. The Govt. of Indian owned company BSNL is in red for the first time. The loss of Rs 1,822.65 crore for fiscal 2009-10 is not alone due to hard competition from private players, but due to the callous attitude of its employees.

For quite long the land line users of this company were a dejected group because of the failure of service by the company. Every day at every minute innumerable complaints are registered about fault in the land line but they are not attended by the company. Most of the subscribers opted to mobile just because of the deficiency in service by the company. The worst is about to happen and the offices of this company would turn out as places of protest by trade unions and political outfits against the Central Government.

The BSNl could think of making profit by selling their land and property now at a high cost which were once procured at a throwaway price.

K A Solaman