Why BSNL’s network connection is poor? – Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister for Communications say, it is because of UPA government.

BSNL Employees are being denied Wage Revision, based on the recommendation of the 3^rd Pay Revision Committee. The AUAB has been demanding that, BSNL should be exempted from the affordability clause of the 3^rd Pay Revision Committee. The AUAB has all along been telling the government that, BSNL became a loss making Company only because of the government policies and not because of the inefficiency of the employees. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, the erstwhile Hon’ble Minister for Communications, had accused the UPA government for the financial crisis of BSNL. However, it is regrettable that, the government did not accept the pleadings of the AUAB to exempt BSNL from the affordability clause of the 3^rd PRC. In this connection, an interesting debate has taken place in the Parliament yesterday. BJP’s Davengere MP, Shri G.M. Siddeshwara, raised a question as to why BSNL’s network connection was very poor. Replying to this question, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Communications stated that, the bad condition of BSNL’s services is due to “certain political parties, during the UPA government, using BSNL as a cash cow”. The statement of the Hon’ble Minister for Communications, confirms the stand of the AUAB that, BSNL has gone into the financial crisis only due to the anti-BSNL measures of the government. When this being the fact, why the government is not exempting BSNL from the affordability clause of the 3^rd PRC, so that BSNL employees could get Wage Revision?