The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is working to put together a higher compensation package to help Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) to retain about 1000 dissatisfied Telecom Service officers.
DoT will come up with the final compensation package for Telecom Service Officers by June 30, 2012. An internal panel headed by Malay Srivastava, Joint Secretary, DoT is working on the compensation package. In May, 2012, Delhi High Court had asked both BSNL and MTNL and the Telecom Service Officers to resolve issues over employment between them.
Both BSNL and MTNL planned to hire Indian Telecom Service officers who had two years of service left. The operator wanted to hire these officers in senior management positions. The operator?s new recruitment rules was expected to exclude most of the 44-odd Indian Telecom Service officers of the rank of chief general manager (CGM) from being considered for re-absorption, as they fell in the over-58 age group. The retirement age at BSNL is 60 years. BSNL also wanted to consider non-ITS industry professionals with a finance and civil or electrical engineering background for these positions if suitable candidates are not available in the existing ITS pool. However, the Indian Telecom Service executives who had been transferred to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) from BSNL did not want to consider moving back to the BSNL. DoT considered placing them in a surplus staffers cell in the Department of Human Resources.
