People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
25
June 20, 2010
|
Vol. XXXIV
No.
25 June 20, 2010 |
Withdraw Higher
Licence Fee for BSNL
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) issued the
following statement on June 16, 2010
THE
Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly disapproves the discriminatory
order of the
Department of Telecommunications to BSNL directing it to pay higher
licence fee
for 2G spectrum than the private operators.
While
the private operators have been asked to pay the licence fee on their
income,
the BSNL has been asked to pay on its revenue.
This will put additional burden on the premier public sector
undertaking
amounting to several thousand crores of rupees.
The
Polit Bureau demands withdrawal of this unjust order of the DoT and allow BSNL to pay licence fee at par
with private sector
operators.
This
development once again underlines the pro-private sector stance of the
UPA
government, in general, and telecommunication minister A Raja, in
particular,
which should be resolutely opposed by all those who want to defend the
public
sector.
