
BSNL to put off 19,000 employees: Congress slams Modi’s ‘privatisation conspiracy’
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Restricted (BSNL), the state-run telecom big, is about to slash its workforce by 35 per cent, with plans to put off 18,000–19,000 workers by means of a second Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS). In line with a report by the Financial Occasions, the division of telecommunications (DoT) has sought Rs 15,000 crore from…