According to BRPSE chief Nitish Sengupta, “It seems the company has a lot of problems and is not being able to compete with private players in a fast expanding market. It lacks consumer susceptibility and has an excessive workforce. We will discuss all these issues before making a blueprint for its revival.” Sources in BRPSE claimed that during his tenure, Raja was not keen to apply the BRPSE prescription for BSNL.
Earlier, BRPSE had recommended that the ailing Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) be taken over by BSNL as the former is well known for manufacturing equipment for the telecom industry. “But we faced stiff resistance from the then minister, A Raja, who refused to accept our suggestions,” Sengupta told Business Standard.
ITI has a plant in Raebareli, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Gandhi was also keen to see ITI become a BSNL subsidiary but Raja didn’t allow it in his tenure.
BRPSE, however, will not take up the merger issue in its forthcoming meeting as it wants to focus only on the financial health of BSNL.
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