Nagpur: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) once again failed to pay a timely salary.
Wages for May to be paid in June remain delayed, even when the month ends in a few days.
Official sources say there is a possibility of June salaries will also be postponed, because state-owned telecommunications companies have seen low cash collections.
This is associated with Covid by TII official talking to.
However, the source said the inability of the BNSL so far launched 4G services to come equivalent to private players is the main factor for poor finance.
The government has asked BSNL to get 4G equipment from domestic vendors and avoid Chinese suppliers.
It is based that BSNL has taken cases with PMOs, looking for relaxation in norms, because personal player equipment also has Chinese components and is bought from foreign vendors.
There is no response so far even though there are many reminders.
BSNL also awaits a convenience letter from the government to facilitate bank loans to fund 4G services.
If Covid has affected the cash collection, BNSL employees also face difficult times during the pandemic because of that.
Even when medical progress finally began, a number of employees who suffered from Covid had to be spent from their own pockets because the replacement was arrested, said the source.
The first time BSNL did not pay a salary in March 2019.
This time, salary delays have even though BSNL reduces labor substantially, with 78,000 strange people choose a voluntary pension scheme of more than 2019-20.
Even in the Nagpur office, the power has been halved after the retirement scheme one and a half years ago.
However, salary is not regular even after that.
Employees said the delay of more than two weeks has become a new normal.
The salary for April which will be paid at the end of the month is paid after May 20.
The current delay has become the longest employee, the employee said here.
There are indications that payments can be postponed outside of June, after that the current month’s salary will remain delayed.
Director of BNSL (Finance) Yojana Das cannot be contacted for comments.
SMS answered and the telephone number of his house was not connected.
A senior official said, asking for anonymity, there had been a large sauce in the collection, which had hampered cash flow.
This situation is expected to increase next month and so on because the recovery agent will begin to move out to get arrears, because restrictions have decreased after the second wave of pandemics recede.
“New medical progress began in May, before that employees who suffer from Covid must be spent themselves.
Facilities without cash are also not available because Hospital Empaneled refused the benefits due to the delay in cleaning the bill from the BNSL side,” said Naresh Kumbhare, Secretary of the Employee Association District BSNL.
Employees have held a demonstration last week to protest payment of delayed salaries, he said.