Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNl), Indore notwithstanding notching laudable successes on various fronts in terms of expanding and making qualitative improvement its services and generating revenue for the department, has to collect an outstanding dues of `22 crores from its 3000 odd defaulters including 150-200 corporate defaulters.
Briefing media persons about its successes in the last financial year and proposed schemes that it plans to implement in the new financial year, BSNl Indore GM Ganesh Dutt Pande said that in order to recover outstanding dues from its defaulters, the department has embarked upon an innovative recovery drive – christened as Indore Recovery Model.
The recovery drive has met with huge successes and within a short span of time, the department has collected an outstanding dues of `2.5 crore from its defaulters which is set to go up further in the coming days.
Talking about achievements of the department in previous year, he said the BSNl Indore has notched first position in Madhya Pradesh by collecting revenue of `116.5 crore in the last financial year. last year the department introduced video phony services in the district and efficiently managed communication services during the global investors meet, held in the city last year.
The department, Pande said for the first time in the country introduced a crash course in CPT for mathematics and commerce students at its departmental training centre.
Talking about the new schemes, the department has planned in the current financial year, he said the BSNl Indore in the current year has proposed to introduce e-cark kit system, 4G services in April-May this year and has set a target of increasing its revenue in the new financial year by 25%. In order to make BSNl telecom services more efficient, the department has proposed to set up Next Generation Network switch and lay optical fibre network of 1600 km length.