Kottam College of Engineering, Kurnool
Kottam College of Engineering, Kurnool
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. formed in October, 2000, is World's 7th largest
Telecommunications Company providing comprehensive range of telecom services in
India: Wireline, CDMA mobile, GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service,
MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP services, IN Services etc. Presently it is one of the largest &
leading public sector unit in India.
BSNL has installed Quality Telecom Network in the country and now focusing on
improving it, expanding the network, introducing new telecom services with ICT
applications in villages and wining customer's confidence. Today, it has about 46
million line basic telephone capacity, 8 million WLL capacity, 52 Million GSM
Capacity, more than 38302 fixed exchanges, 46565 BTS, 3895 Node B ( 3G BTS),
287 Satellite Stations, 614755 Rkm of OFC Cable, 50430 Rkm of Microwave
Network connecting 602 Districts, 7330 cities/towns and 5.6 Lakhs villages.
BSNL is the only service provider, making focused efforts and planned initiatives to
bridge the Rural-Urban Digital Divide ICT sector. In fact there is no telecom operator
in the country to beat its reach with its wide network giving services in every nook &
corner of country and operates across India except Delhi & Mumbai. Whether it is
inaccessible areas of Siachen glacier and North-eastern region of the country. BSNL
serves its customers with its wide bouquet of telecom services.
BSNL is numero uno operator of India in all services in its license area. The company
offers vide ranging & most transparent tariff schemes designed to suite every customer.
BSNL cellular service, Cell One, has 55,140,282 2G cellular customers and 88,493 3G
customers as on 30.11.2009. In basic services, BSNL is miles ahead of its rivals, with
35.1 million Basic Phone subscribers i.e. 85 per cent share of the subscriber base and
92 percent share in revenue terms.
The company has vast experience in Planning, Installation, network integration and
Maintenance of Switching & Transmission Networks and also has a world class ISO
9000 certified Telecom Training Institute.
Scaling new heights of success, the present turnover of BSNL is more than
Rs.351,820 million (US $ 8 billion) with net profit to the tune of Rs.99,390 million
(US $ 2.26 billion) for last financial year. The infrastructure asset on telephone alone
is worth about Rs.630,000 million (US $ 14.37 billion).
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Composition of Board
The Board comprise of 12 Directors, of which 6 [including the CMD] are whole time
Directors; 2 Government Nominee Directors and 4 Non-official Part Time Directors.
Thus, the Board has the optimum mix of 50% Whole-time and 50% part-time Directors.
The composition is as per Corporate Governance Norms for the unlisted CPSEs, laid
down by the Department of Public Enterprises.
On return from TCIL, he worked in BSNL as General Manager in J&K Circle from
January 2000 to June 2003. He was again selected for Deputation in TCIL in June 2003
where he was entrusted the job of Chief Project Director, Algeria, Group General
Manager (New Technology) and Executive Director (Project Monitoring) and other
important assignments. He took over the charge of Director (Projects), TCIL on
01.11.2005 and was subsequently selected as Chairman & Managing Director of TCIL.
He remained at the helms of TCIL from 1st March 2007 to 29th April 2011.
During his tenure in TCIL he gained rich experience in the fields of Planning, Project
Management, Operations and Business Development. In TCIL, he guided the successful
implementation of many complex projects. Some of the notable projects are: Pan
African e-Network Project – Providing Tele-Education and Tele-Medicine Services to
34 African Nations from seven Universities and 12 Super Specialty Hospitals of India;
National Internet Backbone Project; SAARC e-Network Project; Optical Ground Wire
Project over 3000 Kilometer Electrical Transmission Lines in live line conditions in
Algeria. He has to his credit the turning around of TCIL as its CMD.
Shri Rakesh Kumar Agarwal has done his B.E. from Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore in 1973 and then M.Tech in Communications
from IIT Delhi in 1975. Thereafter he joined Department of
Telecommunications and worked in various fields of
telecommunications. He did installation of C-400 Cross Bar
Exchanges till 1983. He was sent to France for training for the installation of Digital
Electronic Exchange of E-10B make in 1983 and thereafter worked as Deputy General
Manager (Installation) for E-10B Exchanges in MTNL, Mumbai from 1983 till 1991.
He was DoT representative for the System Selection Committee set up to finalise
gateway switches for VSNL. During 1990 he represented India for APT Conference in
Indonesia. He was also deputed as Project Director, TCIL to Sultanate-of-Oman from
1991 to 1996 where he handled all the projects related to setting up the external plant
network for copper cable and Optical Fibre Network in Sultanate-of-Oman. From 1996-
Shri Sanjiv Gupta, 46, an alumnus of IIT Delhi, has had a long and
distinguished career in marketing and operations in diverse categories.
Following a successful inning in marketing, Shri Sanjiv took over as Head of Operations
for the company-owned bottling operations of Coca-Cola in India. He was elevated as
the Deputy President of Coca-Cola India Division in April 2002, with above 60 plants
under his supervision. During this period, he brought about significant operational
improvements at the marketplace, resulting in the company reaching the break-even
profit stage in 2001-2 and the India Division receiving the prestigious Woodruff Cup in
2002. He steered the company's owned bottling as well as franchise operations and led
the Indian operations to the country's premier total beverage company. Under Shri
Gupta, the Coca-Cola company was poised to change the beverage landscape once again
with an exciting range of new product offerings in Juice, Carbonated Soft Drinks and
numerous Packaging innovations. The company in India has consolidated its leadership
position of a 60.2% Market Share and is a strategic market for the overall Coca-Cola
Company.
Shri Sanjiv is now associated with a Infrastructure Fund focussed on the growing
infrastructure sector in India. He has delivered lectures in national and international
forums and is actively associated with various commerce and trade bodies such as
FICCI, CII etc., in various capacities
Shri Ashish Guha entered upon the office of Director of the Company
wef 21 st May 2010. Shri Ashish Guha joined HeidelbergCement
Group in August 2006 as the Managing Director of Heidelberg
Cement India Limited. Mr.Guha consolidated Heidelberg Cement’s
He has advised large multinational corporate on their entry into India as well as
acquisitions. Some of the prominent clients handled by Mr.Guha include BAT, Baxter,
France Telecom, General Motors, Lafarge.
Mr.Guha has been involved with various industry forums like Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
and has represented India as a delegate in many nations. He was also an active
participant in the World Economic Forum at Davos in the late90’s. He has been part of
many Government bodies including the one on Privatization.
With a corporate philosophy that considers Human Resource as the most prized assets
of the organization, it's natural for BSNL to continually hone employee skills, enhance
their knowledge and their expertise and their aspirations to fruition. Even as BSNL goes
about conducting its business activities, it lays emphasis on constant enhancement of
knowledge and skills through regular training programmes.
ORGANIZATION
Phone
Designation Name Fax No Email
(Office)
CMD R.K.Upadhyay 23372424 23372444 cmdbsnl@bsnl.co.in
Director(Enterprise
R.K.AGGARWAL 23734064 23734166 dir.enterprise@bsnl.co.in
)
Director(Finance) 23714141 23314141 dirfin@bsnl.co.in
Director(Human
A. K. Garg 23734070 23734072 dirhrd@bsnl.co.in
Resource)
Director(Consumer 23037142
RAJESH WADHWA 23734242 diro@bsnl.co.in
Fixed Access) 23738999
Director(Consumer
R.K.AGGARWAL 23734073 23734075 dirplg@bsnl.co.in
Mobility)
Company Secretary
H.C.PANT 23353395 23353389 csgml@bsnl.co.in
& GM(Legal)
FINANCE
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the largest Public Sector Undertaking of the Nation, is
certainly on a financial ground that's sound.
The Company has a net worth of Rs. 86,476 crores (US$ 19.26 billion), Authorized
Equity capital of Rs. 10,000 crores (US $ 2.22 billion), Paid up Equity Share Capital of
Rs. 5,000 crores (US $ 1.11 billion) and Revenue is Rs. 32,045 crores (US $ 7.13 billion)
in 2009-10.
The BSNL is making substantial investment year to year for its network expansion and
modernization. During the current financial year BSNL has made the gross investment of
Rs. 28,227 crore (US $ 6.28 billion) in Fixed Assets.
BSNL has Gross Fixed Assets of over Rs. 132243 Crores (US $ 25.96 billion) as on
31.03.2009.
ASSETS
GROWTH PLAN
3G Services : BSNL has started 3G services in 290 cities and acquired more than 6lakh
customers. It has planned to roll out 3G services in 760 cities across the country in 2010-
11.
Broadband services: The shift in demand from voice to data has revolutionized the very
nature of the network. BSNL is poised to cash on this opportunity and has planned for
extensive expansion of the Broadband services. The Broadband customer base of 3.56
Million customers in March'2009 is planned to be increased to 16.00 million by March
2014.
BSNL is also offering prepaid Broadband services. The customers availing prepaid
broadband have many advantages over post paid broadband like control on usage,
Mobility etc.
In addition to wireline broadband services, BSNL is also in the process of rolling out its
Wi-MAX network in rural areas to take an initial lead and provide wireless broadband
services in all rural blocks in the country during 2010-11. The Urban Wi-Max is also
being deployed in Kerala & Punjab Circles and shall cover all the mojor cities in these
circles.
Wi-Max services are also being provided through a Franchisee agent with M/s SOMA in
three states of Gujrat, AP and Maharashtra.
Fibre to Home(FTTH) : To meet the demand for high bandwidth services, BSNL is
rolling out FTTH services (GPON & GE-PON) for the first time in the country, which is
Mobility in WLL: BSNL is planning to provide full mobility on its WLL network from
March 2010.
(i) Complaints are being booked on "198". This Toll Free Service of booking
complaints are available in every telephone system. Grievances can be
booked on "12727"(for Circle Office) or "1095" (for District Office). This
special Toll Free Service has been introduced by BSNL for booking public
grievances.
(ii) In every office 'visiting hours' are prescribed where the subscribers having
complaints or grievances can approach the officers of BSNL at various
levels,
(iii) Public Grievance Officers are available right from Corporate Office to SSA
(Secondary Switching Area) level. The complainant can approach these
officers in person or through written complaints or communicate through e-
mail or contact on telephones,
(iv) Special attention is being given to holding meetings with consumer
organizations.
(v) Telephones Advisory Committees have been constituted,
(vi) Senior Officers are available for public without prior appointment during a
specified hours on working days.
(vii) Customer Service Centres have been opened for IMPCS.
BSNL ensures prompt rectification of any fault or complaint booked through its
extensive grass root level online fault restoration system (FRS). However, in case you
still have your problem unsolved timely, BSNL has implemented a three tier consumer
grievance redressal mechanism comprising of call centres for various services, nodal
officers at SSA and Circle level and an appellate authority for deciding cases that the
consumers may wish to appeal against. As a first step, you may contact our Call Centre
on toll free helpline numbers given below.
For MPLS & Other Data services: 1800-425-1957 (toll free number).
Keeping the global network of Networks networked, the
countrywide Internet Services of BSNL under the brand
name includes Internet dial up/ Leased line access, CLI based access (no
account is required) and DIAS service, for web browsing and E-mail applications. You
can use your dialup sancharnet account from any place in India using the same access no
‘172233’, the facility which no other ISP has. BSNL has customer base of more than 1.7
million for sancharnet service.
BSNL also offers Web hosting and co-location services at very cheap rates.
ISDN
Integrated Service Digital Network Service of BSNL utilizes a unique
digital network providing high speed and high quality voice, data and
image transfer over the same line. It can also facilitate both desktop video
and high quality video conferencing.
Intelligent Network
I-Net
India s x.25 based packet Switched Public Data Network is operational in
104 cities of the country. It offers x.25 x.28 leased, x.28 Dial up (PSTN)
Connection) and frame relay services.
Countrywide WLL is being offered in areas that are non-feasible for the normal
network.
Helping relieve congestion of connections in the normal cable/wire based network in
urban areas.
Connecting the remote and scattered rural areas.
Limited mobility without any air-time charge.
e-Track
All India Helpline All India Helpline
Fleet Management *
Number 1800 425 1425 Number 1800 425 1425
Solution
INTERNET SERVICES
(As on 30.10.2006)
No. of No. of Working
S.No. Name of the Telecom Circle
Nodes Connections
1 ANDAMAN & NICOBAR 1 2851
2 ANDHRA PRADESH 23 173105
3 ASSAM 15 17005
4 BIHAR 15 16064
5 CHHATTISGARH 8 19990
6 GUJARAT 22 146658
7 HARYANA 16 63702
8 HIMACHAL PRADESH 6 17758
9 JAMMU & KASHMIR 2 27342
10 JHARKHAND 7 18964
11 KARNATAKA 27 162722
12 KERALA 15 260799
13 MADHYA PRADESH 43 71198
14 MAHARASHTRA 36 211950
15 NORTH EAST-I 5 9750
16 NORTH EAST-II 5 11958
17 ORISSA 13 33629
18 PUNJAB 19 122120
19 RAJASTHAN 32 96362
20 TAMILNADU 31 298509
21 UTTRANCHAL 10 26381
WORKING
Sl.No. Unit Name
CONNECTIONS
1 ANDEMAN & NICOBAR 0
2 ANDHRA PRADESH 114
3 ASSAM 48
4 BIHAR 44
5 CHHATTISGARH 26
6 GUJARAT 101
7 HARYANA 3
8 HIMACHAL PRADESH 16
9 JAMMU & KASHMIR 18
10 JHARKHAND 56
11 KARNATAKA 230
12 KERALA 140
13 MADHYA PRADESH 119
14 MAHARASHTRA 458
15 NORTH EAST-I 42
16 NORTH EAST-II 0
17 ORISSA 76
18 PUNJAB 82
19 RAJASTHAN 162
20 TAMIL NADU 182
21 UTTARACHAL 10
22 UTTAR PRADESH(E) 190
23 UTTAR PRADESH(W) 101
24 WEST BENGAL 75
25 CALCUTTA 312