BSNL staff against hiving off mobile towers

Trichy: BSNL employees have opposed the move to hive off the firm’s mobile towers into a separate subsidiary company at a meeting held in Trichy On Saturday. They stated that the move would ruin the government entity as it will be handed over to private parties. Various resolutions have also been adopted at the meeting organised by the BSNL Employees Development Association.

Opposing the formation of a separate tower corporation, the functionaries of the Telecom Employees Development Association stated that the decision to form a separate entity will directly benefit the private telecom companies. This would make all the 70,000 BSNL towers to be operated under them and BSNL will have to pay a fee to use them, they alleged.

The association also have appealed the government to provide a bonus of Rs 3000 for the BSNL employees from the year 2015 onwards as fixed earlier.

Various functionaries of the association including Porur Natarajan, Kanaga Soruban, I P Thiyagarajan, Gnanaiya, SK Batcha also participated.