The meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) looking into the revival strategy for state- owned telecom firms BSNl and MTNl has been deferred by a day to June 12.
“It has been deferred to June 12,” an official source told the news agency. The GoM, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, was scheduled to meet on June 11. The high level inter-ministerial panel has not met since the time it was constituted.
It was set up following the concerns raised by Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the future of the two loss-making PSUs. The GoM has been re-constituted following the resignation of Ashwani Kumar, who was a member as the law Minister.
Its members include Sibal, who also dons the hat of law Minister now, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office V Narayanasamy.
In view of national and strategic interests, the GoM has to consider and recommend measures that could be taken in the short, medium and long term for revival and revitalisation of BSNl and MTNl, sources said.