Salaries of BSNL and MTNL employees are up-to-date and have been paid till November 2021, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
For the two state-owned telecom corporations, BSNL and MTNL, stiff competition in the mobile segment and absence of 4G services (except in a few locations for BSNL) in the data-centric telecom market are eroding their competitive strength, Minister of State for Communications, Devusinh Chauhan said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
To a question on whether the staff of MTNL and BSNL have not received their salaries for several months due to losses the companies are facing, the minister said, "Salaries of BSNL and MTNL employees are up to date and have been paid up to November 2021".
The administrative allotment of spectrum for 4G services was approved in 2019 with government support to BSNL as part of the revival package.