BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LTD PROFILE

INTRODUCTION ABOUT BSNL
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. formed in October, 2000, is World's 7th largest Telecommunications Company providing comprehensive range of telecom services in India: Wireline, CDMA mobile, GSM Mobile, Internet, Broadband, Carrier service, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP services, in Services etc. within a span of five years it has become one of the largest public sector unit in India.

BSNL has installed Quality Telecom Network in the country and now focusing on improving it, expanding the network, introducing new telecom services with ICT applications in villages and wining customer's confidence. Today, it has about 47.3 million line basic telephone capacity, 4 million WLL capacity, 20.1 Million GSM Capacity, more than 37382 fixed exchanges, 18000 BTS, 287 Satellite Stations, 480196 Rkm of OFC Cable, 63730 Rkm of Microwave Network connecting 602 Districts, 7330 cities/towns and 5.5 Lakhs villages.

BSNL is the only service provider, making focused efforts and planned initiatives to bridge the Rural-Urban Digital Divide ICT sector. In fact there is no telecom operator in the country to beat its reach with its wide network giving services in every nook & corner of country and operates across India except Delhi & Mumbai. Whether it is inaccessible areas of Siachen glacier and North-eastern region of the country. BSNL serves its customers with its wide bouquet of telecom services.

BSNL is numero uno operator of India in all services in its license area. The company offers vide ranging & most transparent tariff schemes designed to suite every customer.

BSNL cellular service, Cell One, has more than 17.8 million cellular customers, garnering 24 percent of all mobile users as its subscribers. That means that almost every fourth mobile user in the country has a BSNL connection. In basic services, BSNL is miles ahead of its rivals, with 35.1 million Basic Phone subscribers i.e. 85 per cent share of the subscriber base and 92 percent share in revenue terms.

BSNL has more than 2.5 million WLL subscribers and 2.5 million Internet Customers who access Internet through various modes viz. Dial-up, Leased Line, DIAS, Account Less Internet (CLI). BSNL has been adjudged as the NUMBER ONE ISP in the country.

BSNL has set up a world class multi-gigabit, multi-protocol convergent IP infrastructure that provides convergent services like voice, data and video through the same Backbone and Broadband Access Network. At present there are 0.6 million Data One broadband customers.

The company has vast experience in Planning, Installation, network integration and Maintenance of Switching & Transmission Networks and also has a world class ISO 9000 certified Telecom Training Institute.

Scaling new heights of success, the present turnover of BSNL is more than Rs.351,820 million (US $ 8 billion) with net profit to the tune of Rs.99,390 million (US $ 2.26 billion) for last financial year. The infrastructure asset on telephone alone is worth about Rs.630,000 million (US $ 14.37 billion).

BSNL plans to expand its customer base from present 47 millions lines to 125 million lines by December 2007 and infrastructure investment plan to the tune of Rs. 733 crores (US$ 16.67 million) in the next three years.

The turnover, nationwide coverage, reach, comprehensive range of telecom services and the desire to excel has made BSNL the No. 1 Telecom Company of India.

BSNL Registered Office : Bharath Sanchar Bhavan, Harish Chandra Mathur Lane, Janpath, New Delhi-110001.

BSNL Corporate Office : Bharath Sanchar Bhavan, Harish Chandra Mathur Lane, Janpath, New Delhi-110001.

VISION:
To become the largest telecom Service Provider in Asia.

MISSION
To provide world class State-of-art technology telecom services to its customers on demand at competitive prices.
To provide world class telecom infrastructure in its area of operation and to contribute to the growth of the country's economy.

OBJECTIVES
To be the Lead Telecom Services Provider.
To provide quality and reliable fixed telecom service to our customer and there by increase customer's confidence.
To provide mobile telephone service of high quality and become no. 1 GSM operator in its area of operation.
To provide point of interconnection to other service provider as per their requirement promptly.
To facilitate R & D activity in the country.

Contribute towards:
National Plan Target of 500 million subscriber base for India by 2010.
Broadband customers base of 20 million in India by 2010 as per Broadband Policy 2004.
Providing telephone connection in villages as per government policy.
Implementation of Triple play as a regular commercial proposition.

Board of Directors:
Corporate structure of BSNL Board consists of CMD & Five full time Directors Human Resource Development (HRD), Planning & New Services, Operations, Finance and Commercial & Marketing, who manages the entire gamut of BSNL operations. There are five other Directors in the full Board of BSNL.

CMD - Shri Kuldeep Goyal
Shri Kuldeep Goyal has taken over as Chairman & Managing Director of BSNL on August 1, 2007. Shri Kuldeep Goyal joined the Indian Telecommunication Service of Govt. of India in 1972. He is an Engineering Graduate from IIT Roorkee.

Director (Operations)- Shri Rajesh Wadhwa
Shri Rajesh Wadhwa has taken over as Director (Operations) in BSNL on 1st August 2008. Shri Wadhwa is a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering in first class with distinction from I.I.T. Delhi. He has also done MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He joined the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India through Indian Telecommunications Services Group ‘A’ in December 1975. Since then he has worked in various capacities in different units of DoT/ BSNL/MTNL and has versatile experience covering almost all the fields in telecommunications including operations, development and management of landline and mobile networks, sales and marketing and financial management etc.

Director (Planning & New Services)-Shri R.K.Aggarwal
Shri Rakesh Kumar Agarwal has done his B.E. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1973 and then M.Tech in Communications from IIT Delhi in 1975. Thereafter he joined Department of Telecommunications and worked in various fields of telecommunications. He did installation of C-400 Cross Bar Exchanges till 1983. He was sent to France for training for the installation of Digital Electronic Exchange of E-10B make in 1983 and thereafter worked as Deputy General Manager (Installation) for E-10B Exchanges in MTNL, Mumbai from 1983 till 1991.

Director(Commercial & Marketing)- Shri Rajendra Singh
Shri Rajendra Singh took over as Director (Commercial & Marketing) BSNL Board on 7th November 2007. He belongs to 1972 batch of Indian Telecom Service. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in 1972 and joined Department of Telecommunications in March 1974. During his more than three decades of service, before joining the BSNL Board, he successfully held various important and prestigious positions in the Department of Telecom, MTNL and BSNL including his tenure as the Chief General Manager Himachal Pradesh and Punjab Circles.

Director (HRD)- Shri Gopal Das
Shri Gopal Das has taken over as Director(HRD) in BSNL on 4th October 2007. He is responsible for formulating and implementing policies pertaining to Establishment, personnel, industrial relations, training, restructuring and other HR related affairs. He obtained his B.E. Degree with honors from Banaras Hindu University in the year 1972. He joined Department of Telecommunications, Government of India through Indian Telecommunications Services Group 'A' Service in June 1975.

Shri J.S.Deepak, I.A.S., Govt. Director
Shri Deepak, is M.Sc. in Electronics from Bangalore University and MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad with specialisation in Marketing and Finance.

Shri P.K.Mittal, Govt. Director
Shri. P.K.Mittal has done his B.Sc (Electronics), Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi. He joined the Department of Telecom in 1981. He has more than 27 years of experience with department of Telecom. He is presently responsible for implementation and monitoring or access service licences in the country.

Shri Mahesh Shah, Director
Shri Mahesh Shah is a B.Com., LLB., FCA, FCS, FICWA, MBA [USA], MBIM [UK]. He entered upon the office of Director of the Company w.e.f. 20.2.2008. He is a Corporate Advisor on Company Law, Finance, Tax, Audit, Corporate Governance, Costing, Capital Market, Restructuring etc.

Dr. S.K.Kak, Director
Dr.Kak, is an M.Tech in Electronics Engineering [Microwave Engineering] and Ph.D in Electronics Engineering [Digital Communications] is a Professor in Electronics and Engineering Department of BHU. He entered upon the office of Director of the Company w.e.f. 20.2.2008.

Sanjiv Gupta, Director
Shri Sanjiv Gupta, 46, an alumnus of IIT Delhi, has had a long and distinguished career in marketing and operations in diverse categories. A Chemical Engineer, Shri Sanjiv started professional career with Hindustan Lever Limited in 1984 and very quickly moved across the organisation in Sales and Marketing.

Human Resource Development:
With a corporate philosophy that considers Human Resource as the most prized assets of the organization, it's natural for BSNL to continually hone employee skills, enhance their knowledge and their expertise and their aspirations to fruition. Even as BSNL goes about conducting its business activities, it lays emphasis on constant enhancement of knowledge and skills through regular training programmes.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has a vast reservoir of highly skilled and experienced work force of about 3,57,000 personnel. We believe that our staff, which is one of the best trained manpower in the telecom sector, is our biggest asset.

We believe that our future depends on our staff who provide services to our valued customers and stay in touch with them. To meet the technological challenges, employees are trained for technology up-gradation, modernization, computerization etc in BSNL's training Centers spread across Country. These centers are properly equipped with the requisite infrastructure facilities such as Lecture rooms, modern audio-visual aids, libraries, hostels etc. To apex training centers of BSNL i.e. Advance level Telecom Training Center (ALTTC) at Ghaziabad and Bharat Ratna Bhimrao Telecom Training Center at Jabalpur are comparable to any world class Telecom Training Center. Moreover, 43 zonal training centers and a National Academy of Telecom Finance and Management have been running for several years now. Different curriculum run in these centers to impart technology based training, training for Attitudinal change, basic educational and skill development program etc.

ASSETS :
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has got net fixed assets valuing more than Rs. 54698 Crores (US $ 13.67 billion), which are in the form of Land, Buildings Cables, Apparatus & Plants etc. as on 31.03.2008.

Finance:
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the largest Public Sector Undertaking of the Nation, is certainly on a financial ground that's sound.

The Company has a net worth of Rs. 88,128 crores (US$ 22.02 billion), authorised equity capital of Rs. 10,000 crores (US $ 2.50 billion), Paid up Equity Share Capital of Rs. 5,000 crores (US $ 1.25 billion) and Revenues is Rs. 38053 crores (US $ 9.51 billion) in 2007-08.

(Note: 1 US $ = 40.02 INR as on 31-03-2008)

Gross Investment in Fixed Assets :
The BSNL is making substancial investment year to year for its network expension and mordenisation. During the current financial year BSNL has made the gross investment of Rs. 7180 crore ( US $ 1.79 billion) in Fixed Assets. These investments have been financed by the internal accruals.