In a press release on dated 28.04.2015
from the Ministry of Communications &
Information Technology it has been
informed that Bharat Sanchar Nigam has
been told to improve services and ensure
that better quality of signal is
maintained specially in the border and
extremism affected areas. Union Minister
for Telecom and Information Technology,
Sh Ravi Shankar Prasad said these at a
meeting with the members of Parliament
from the States of Bihar, Meghalaya,
Manipur and Nagaland. The meeting was
part of the series of meetings planned
to make telecom officials directly
answerable to the parliamentary
representatives so as to have a
firsthand account of public sectors
performance, problems faced and possible
solutions.
The Union Minister for Telecom and
Information Technology, Mr. Ravi Prasad
said while the Government is committed
to revive BSNL and numbers of
initiatives are in the pipeline to bring
it back to the position of market
leader. He said the management of BSNL
will also be expected to regain lost
confidence of people by improving
services and response. He said a major
initiative has been launched by BSNL to
improve quality of signal for which it
plans to add another 1150 towers during
this fiscal in Bihar alone. Members of Parliament from the States of Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and North Eastern States participated in the first meeting. Mr. Prasad has directed the Department to call five such meetings so that all members of parliament are given opportunity to raise issues directly with officials concerned.
Members of Parliament who attended yesterday’s meetings gave overwhelming support to Mr. Prasad initiative to revive glory of BSNL and categorically stated that they are eager to extend all support in this context. They were not only concerned about the deteriorating quality of BSNL services but even apprehended private players role in obstructing growth of BSNL which enjoined lead position in the sector till 2004.They only suggested that meeting of representatives from Defence and Home should be called to address this problem.
Mr. Prasad also directed the Department of Telecom to explore the possibility of setting up a dedicated cell in BSNL to monitor the effectiveness of its network in border areas and also in areas badly affected by extremism.
The meeting was
also informed that the public sector
which came into being only in October
2000 has a net worth of Rs 51,203 crore
with an equity capital of Rs 12,500
crore only. New initiatives taken to
improve viability include Wi-FI
services, 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 by the end of this fiscal while
total number of 14 million ports are
planned. 2500 hot spots are planned for
the year of which 41 hot-spot have
already been deployed.
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