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More autonomy sought for BSNL

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI DEC. 5. The 16th Circle conference of the Telecommunication Engineering Services Association (India) Kerala concluded here on Wednesday.

The association circle secretary, T.N. Varghese, in his keynote address, demanded that the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited should be given full autonomy on the functional and financial fronts so as to enable it to make decisions on innovations and take bold initiatives. The department's dependence on other organisations like the Planning Commission, Electronics, Expenditure, Telecommunications and Personnel are delaying the decisions. The BSNL has to be given the freedom to decide on matters pertaining to it, he suggested.

The administrative and financial powers of the BSNL also need to be decentralised so as to reduce the burden of the top management and to give adequate freedom to the lower formations. The BSNL also needed to give sufficient importance to human resources management so as to motivate the workforce, he suggested.

The former Supreme Court judge, K.T. Thomas, inaugurated the open session that was held in connection with conference. J.K. Chhabra, senior deputy director-general (personnel), P.P. Ramachandran, chief general manager, Kerala Telecommunications, S. Basu, general secretary of Telecommunications Engineering Services Association and A.K. Ramachandran, chairman, coordination committee, Kerala unit attended.

Earlier, M.P. Sukumaran Nair delivered the James Paul memorial lecture on `Globalisation of Indian industry and its aftermath'.

The association had raised the demands for the creation of STS cadre which has been pending for the last two years.

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