Bharat Broadband appoints BSNL, MTNL officials on board
New Delhi, Sept 26:
The government’s broadband firm Bharat Broadband Network Ltd has
appointed officials of the state-run telecom companies MTNL and BSNL on
its board of directors.
“We have appointed three directors from BSNL and MTNL, respectively. Now
our board is complete,” N Ravi Shankar, CEO, Bharat Broadband Network
Ltd (BBNL) said.
The government has formed special purpose vehicle BBNL to roll out
broadband network to connect 2.5 lakh panchayats across the country by
2014.
Shankar, who is also the Administrator for Universal Services Obligation
Fund at Department of Telecommunications, said that BBNL has appointed
MTNL’s AK Bhargava as Director-Operations, BSNL’s PK Agarwal as
Director-Planning and Arundhati Panda as Director-Finance.
BBNL has started pilot projects on connecting gram panchayats in three
blocks under Ajmer in Rajasthan, Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and
Panisagar in Tripura.
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