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BSNL and MTNL are going to go the Air India Way

Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
22 November 2021
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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is BSNL. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited is MTNL. These are both sick, irrecoverable and lethargic PSUs that continue to gulp taxpayer money for no returns at a breakneck pace. At a time when companies around the world are profit-oriented, BSNL and MTNL remain public sector undertakings that excel in cash consumption. They are involved in the crucial telecommunications sector of India, which in any case is facing the prospect of turning into a duopoly between Reliance Jio and Airtel. So, the Modi government has taken a conscious and appreciable decision to begin monetising BSNL and MTNL’s non-core assets, and this is a step towards the final Air India like sale of both the money-guzzling PSUs.

The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) on Saturday invited bids to sell six assets of state-run telecom firms Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) through its new asset monetisation portal. DIPAM Secretary TuhinKanta Pandey tweeted saying, “Non-core asset monetisation commences with the first set of six properties of BSNL/ MTNL bid out on the MSTC portal.”

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The government has listed for sale real estate assets of the telecom companies at a reserve price of around Rs 1,100 crore. Live mint reported that BSNL properties located in Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Bhavnagar and Kolkata have been posted for sale at a reserve price of around Rs 800 crore. The DIPAM website has listed MTNL assets located in Vasari Hill, Goregaon in Mumbai for sale at a reserve price of around Rs 270 crore.

The asset monetisation is a part of the Modi government’s Rs 69,000 crore revival scheme for MTNL and BSNL. Both the PSUs have been directed to identify and monetise assets worth Rs 37,500 crore by 2022.

BSNL’s Financial Health

BSNL has really made a name for itself for testing its 4G services only recently, even as operators around the world as well as in India are preparing for 5G rollouts. BSNL posts losses worth billions of dollars every year. In FY 19-20, the company posted a loss of 15,499.58 crore rupees and in FY 20-21 of 7,441 crore rupees. The revenue from operations of the company declined by 1.6 per cent to Rs 18,595.12 crore in 2020-21 compared to Rs 18,906.56 crore it reported in 2019-20.

BSNL’s net worth has come down to Rs 51,686.8 crore during FY2021 from Rs 59,139.82 crore in the previous year. The outstanding debt of the company increased to Rs 27,033.6 crore in FY2020-21 from Rs 21,674.74 crore in FY2019-20. In 2019, a report by Kotak Institutional Securities said that the accumulated debt of the company is more than 90,000 crore rupees.

Air India Was in Similar Position

BSNL gulps billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money every year, just like Air India used to. The company has such a huge debt that every year it pays more than a billion dollars in interest payment while its total revenue is a little less than two billion dollars. Had it been a private player, the majority of its revenue would have gone for debt servicing and with no money for operational expenditure, it would have closed a long time ago. But, given the fact it has access to the coffers of the richest and most powerful authority in the country, that is the Government of India, it stays afloat.

Read more: Air India is done. BSNL should be next!

Air India was also a similar PSU, which survived at the mercy of the government. Air India, so far, has accumulated a debt of Rs 700 billion or $9.53 billion. The debt-ridden carrier employs more than 10,000 employees. The cumulative loss of the company is 70,000 crore rupees and the loss for the fiscal year 2019 was 7,600 crore rupees.

Yet, Air India last month returned to its rightful owners – Tata Sons. It is about time that taking a leaf from the same book, BSNL and MTNL are privatized too so that they can soon become profitable ventures instead of ones on which taxpayer money is wasted. The first steps towards that direction have been taken, and one hopes that they continue in the times to come.

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Comments 13

  1. B.Subbarao says:
    4 years ago

    Sir
    Do u know How the tax payers money enters into BSNL. Don’t blame BSNL as you wish. First trying to know that Govt. failed to provide 4G technology to BSNL till now. Govt. has given permission to 4G for BSNL in 2020 but same govt allowed other serive providers to lunch 4G in 2016. Govt created lot of hurdles for BSNL. to procure 4G equipment. Try to Analysis how the BSNL is striving hard in the mist Govt. favourism and interest towards the other operators. Govt. failed to establish healthy competition in telecom in the country. BSNL has lot of potential to grow but govt. has to support to take advancement in technology.
    Tq

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    • Yk says:
      4 years ago

      Correct

    • Ashu says:
      4 years ago

      Plz have some knowledge before writting anything…
      How much u have been paid for writting such a biased now’s ??

    • Navee says:
      4 years ago

      Correct

    • Srihari says:
      4 years ago

      Government has not given permission to bid for 4G.OK. but why it is not able to provide at least fault free landline and Broadband services in which it is the leader as boasted. Till some time ago it was leading in Fibre connections. But the moment private players entered, existing connections are being disconnected by the customers. Why? Customers canot afford substandard service. In landline and Broadband services also, the same thing happened. We can’t expect good service from the government servants.

  2. Skumar says:
    4 years ago

    Do you know really about telecom industry other operator debts in ondia. Know the truth before writing. Do the honest journalism.

    Reply
    • Vikas says:
      4 years ago

      Dear pl sharpen ur knowledge and do some homework before writing such a biased and bunch of lies in the column. Would u pl let us know how Tax Payers money is being utilised by BSNL.
      Pl practice healthy and honest journalism.

  3. Raj kumar says:
    4 years ago

    Correct sir

    Reply
  4. Vishal Bhatia says:
    4 years ago

    It is prejudiced and biased narrative by the author who do not know even the basics of telecom sector. First of all Govt.never put the money in BSNL, rather it has emptied its cash reserves to the tune of 30K crores. BSNl is running on it’s own without any monetary support from govt while Govt. Is creating roadblocks in its expansion and upgradation on cost of Pvt.telecom players by not allowing to procure 4G equipment. Govt. knows very well that no Indian co
    will able to manufacture 4G core equipment and forcing BSNL to procure from India manufactured equipment.

    Reply
  5. ABC says:
    4 years ago

    It’s seems Crime Reporter is covering Telecom news as overtime work.
    Firstly know the ABCD of Telecom then write something.
    BSNL /MTNL never wasted penny of Taxpayers.

    Reply
  6. MAYUR MAKWANA says:
    4 years ago

    bsnl not able to provide 4g but still 11% market share from rural and middle classs urban people..
    dont forget about price hike in future by private telecos .If gov takes serious steps to improve services rather than assets then indian psu can provide cheap service to poor and middle class poeple as gov s hospital service availabe to free .All govt service need budgetry support .

    Reply
  7. Ashu says:
    4 years ago

    Plz have some knowledge before writting anything…
    How much u have been paid for writting such a biased news ??
    Such a bakwaas news reporter I hv seen ever

    Reply
  8. P K Kaushik says:
    4 years ago

    Govt earned money from BSNL when it was in profit till 2006. Then the cash reserve of BSNL taken by Govt & left it to survive at it’s own without any support. Still it managesb to survive in spite of not allowed 4G operations. When a pvt company fails, there is Govt to bail it out. But no support for own company. What a pitiable situation.

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