Change management: BSNL employees to PM
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Change management: BSNL employees to PM
New Delhi: The employees' associations of BSNL have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention, demanding change in management and induction of professionals in the Board to operate the state run telco, reports PTI. Upset by deteriorating market share and falling revenues, the employees' associations of BSNL which represents over 10,000 graduate engineers and account professionals at the company approached the Prime Minister to appoint a new management team selected through a national search for talented professionals outside the government. "We have written to the Prime Minister's Office to look into the matter among other things. There is absence of professional management at the Board level at BSNL," said the President of All India Graduate Engineer Telecom Officers Association (AIGETOA), NJP Shilohu Rao. "We are also planning to meet Sam Pitroda, who is the IT adviser to the Prime Minister, and raise these issue with him." This comes in the wake of BSNL's deteriorating market share in the last various quarters. The telco's revenues dipped by about 12 percent in 2008-09 to over 33,000 crore. Drawing comparison between another ailing PSU Air India, the association said, "The decision to employ prominent and professionally well qualified COO in place of old brass is path-breaking in the history of public sector enterprises."

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