The cabinet Secretary, K.M Chandrasekhar has received a written request from the Sanchar Nigam executives Association of India of BSNL informing him of the issues regarding top BSNL executives joining hands private telecommunication operators and urging him to look into this matter.
It said “There is a need to put a sound and foolproof detection mechanism and highly stringent punitive provisions in place to deal with and arrest the deadly and fast spreading menace of nexus of top management of BSNL with service providers/vendors”.
Amidst the stiff competition that Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited was facing from the other telecom operators, BSNL was also losing its top executives to these companies. The association has highlighted that as there is no presence of some binding terms and strict actions that were applicable on such cases which made it very easy for the top executives.
Two top officials form BSNL, both of whom were Indian Telecom Services officers, violated service rules and regulations and have joined a leading private telecom operator. They failed to seek clearance from the government, though they had retired from the services before accepting their new assignment from the telecom companies. As a penalty, two officers would receive a 25 percent reduction in their monthly pension payout for one year.
The Association General G.L Jogi has expressed concern over the fact that over the years many telecom device manufacturers and private telecom companies have hired executives from the Department of Telecommunications, BSNL and the Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Limited to counter these State owned firms with the experience and knowledge that these officers bring with them.
He mentioned, “One of the main reasons for the present state of serious crisis in BSNL has been that a good number of officers belonging to top-level management and closely involved in taking strategic and critical policy decisions relating to business and growth of the company have been on the payroll of service providers and vendors” .
He also noted “The modus operandi of such an unholy and unscrupulous nexus is carefully calibrated and the mechanism of its detection is so feeble that hardly anyone is brought to book. A large number of officers of the top management of BSNL, particularly at the Board/CGM level, develop a very close nexus with service providers while in active job, and immediately after retirement, join them as consultants”.
G L Jogi has further added “We have urged the government to plug the existing loopholes and infirmities and take stringent punitive action against such dubious officials. We have also demanded a thorough probe by an external investigating agency to establish the involvement of a large number of officers in such murky affairs”.
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