New Delhi: Minister of State for Communications Sanjay Dhotre informed Parliament that the loss of state-owned telecom company BSNL increased 2.5 times to Rs 39,089 crore in April-December period in 2019.
The public sector telecom company had a loss of Rs 14,904 crore in the last financial year 2018-19. Dhotre said in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, “BSNL has informed that its accumulated loss in the current financial year i.e. 2019-20 (till December 31, 2019) is Rs. 39,089 crore.” Loss-making BSNL and MTNL including ‘Four-G’ spectrum allocation and Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) on October 23 as revival package worth Rs 68,751 crore The jury was awarded.
