Telecom Minister concerned over slow growth of BSNL (India)Fretful over the sluggish growth of BSNL, Department of Telecom to work out a mechanism where important decisions could be expedited fast to drive more revenue for the PSU asked Telecom Minister A Raja. DoT being the nodal ministry can ask the PSU to speed up decisions and the minister has asked the Secretary to structure a device of regular monitoring of such proposals in DoT itself through the Government’s nominee on BSNL board.
The Minister said that in the competitive environment there is scope for increasing revenue from Value Added Services and BSNL can get much more revenue from VAS if it is able to take quick decisions. “A large number of proposals for VAS on revenue sharing basis in which no investments is required from BSNL are pending with the PSU for long for decision making. BSNL may be directed to look into such proposals on priority and in time-bound manner,” Raja further said. Raja believes that private Telecom operators drawing significant revenues from VAS and in a cheap tariff scenario, revenues from other services like VAS holds potential for a robust growth.
