SHILLONG, APRIL 29: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) earned an overall revenue of Rs 213.96 crore from the North East Circle-I in the 2012-13 financial year, which is an increase of Rs 4.9 crore over the previous year’s earnings of Rs 208.85 cores, but the customers in the states of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura that comprise the circle still owe the state-owned company a whopping Rs 84 crore as outstanding dues.
Chief general manager of the BSNL’s North East Circle–I D P Singh told reporters here on Monday that the company earned Rs 89.5 crore from Tripura, Rs 38.6 crore from Mizoram and 65.6 crore from Meghalaya. However, the three states have cumulative outstanding dues of Rs 36 crore, Rs 38.6 crore and Rs 26 crore respectively
Singh said the BSNL managed to reduce the outstanding dues by Rs 6.12 crore over the previous fiscal year while simultaneously improved its overall revenue collection in the 2012-13 fiscal. “Most importantly the expenditure has also come down by Rs 2.9 crore,” he said.
Outlining the achievements of the company, Singh said it had provided 1.7 lakh GSM mobile connections and commissioned 57 towers, thus enhancing the capacity by about one lakh lines, especially in the rural areas during the last one year. 468 Base trans-receiver stations, he said, would be rolled out under Phase VII project which is aimed at enhancing mobile capacity by three lakh numbers.
The chief manager said there was considerable progress in rolling out of wireless broadband. In Meghalaya 28 base trans-receiver stations were made operative, 19 in Mizoram and 47 in Tripura 47. Accordingly, WiMax connections were also provided in the rural areas.
The company provided 4,572 broadband connections on wired line and the total connections have risen to 23,648 numbers, he said, adding that 203 State Wide Area Network nodes were being created at state, district and block headquarters and about 95 per cent of the nodes have already been connected and the remaining are expected to be completed this year.
Singh also said 103 km of OFC route have been laid for connectivity in the three states put together and the bandwith from PGCL has been leased for better reliability of various networks like GSM, WiMAX. He, however, that during the last two years, digging of new roads had resulted in cutting of OFC links and breakdown of communication on almost a daily basis. (By Our Reporter)
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