Lok Sabha Question No. 879 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-06-26
Subject: Performance of BSNL
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: Kaushalendra Kumar, Anto  Antony

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 879 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26 TH  JUNE, 2019

## PERFORMANCE OF BSNL

## †879.   SHRI KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR: SHRI ANTO ANTONY:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a)   whether public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is on the verge of closure and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor along with the steps taken by the Government to strengthen BSNL;
- (b)    whether  the  Government  has  any  statistics  regarding  existing  BSNL  landline  and  mobile phone connections and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)    whether  BSNL  is  providing  new  landline  and  mobile  connections  and  if  so,  the  details thereof  including  the  number  of  such  connections  provided  by  BSNL  during  each  of  the  last three years and the current year;
- (d) whether the  Government  communication  systems  are getting affected due to poor performance of BSNL and if so, the details thereof including the loss incurred by BSNL during each of the last three years;
- (e)    whether  the  Government  has  any  record  regarding  number  of  employees  working  under BSNL and if so, the details thereof; and
- (f)   whether the employees of BSNL are not getting their salary regularly and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor and the steps taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS, LAW & JUSTICE AND ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

- (a) No proposal of closure of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is under consideration.
- (b) Details  of  existing  landline  connections  and  mobile  connections  of  BSNL  as  on 31.03.2019 are as under:
- (c) Number of new landline and mobile connections provided by BSNL during the last three years and upto 31.05.2019 during 2019-20 are as under:
- (d) No such case is reported where Government communication systems are getting affected due to poor performance of BSNL.  However, losses incurred in the last 3 years are as follows:
- (e) As  on  31.05.2019,  a  total  of  1,63,902  employees  including  46,597  Executive  and 1,17,305 Non Executive employees are working in BSNL. The salary to BSNL employees is being paid regularly.  However there was some delay
- (f) in the salary paid for the month of February, 2019.

| Landline Connections   | 1.12 crore   |
|------------------------|--------------|
| Mobile Connections     | 11.57 crore  |

|                      | 2016-17     | 2017-18     | 2018-19     | 2019-20 (upto 31.05.2019)   |
|----------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------------------|
| Landline connections | 11,82,630   | 8,90,520    | 7,19,228    | 95,063                      |
| Mobile connections   | 2,50,19,494 | 2,54,99,981 | 2,16,48,088 | 35,90,444                   |

|                     |   2016-17 |   2017-18 |   2018-19 (unaudited) |
|---------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------------------|
| Losses in Rs. crore |      4793 |      7993 |                  7714 |

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