BSNL union in 4G cry

The BSNL Employees’ Union has planned to intensify its campaign and launch an agitation to get its long-standing demands fulfilled by the Centre.

The union has urged the Centre to keep its promise and roll out 4G services to help the state-run telecom company compete with private players.

“It is a year since the government announced its revival package. But nothing has happened yet,” BSNLEU Karnataka president C.K. Gundanna told The Telegraph on Sunday.

“Our employee strength has been halved, thanks to an ill-timed voluntary retirement scheme. In December 2019, we had 1.6 lakh workers across the country. Now it’s hardly 66,000,” Gundanna said, citing this as one of the biggest handicaps forced on the company.