The Telecom Minister Ravishankar Prasad has said that an operating profit of Rs 672 crore has been earned by BSNL for the first time in seven years and expressed the confidence for better performance by the end of this fiscal.
According to Prasad, “BSNL was incurring Rs 8,000 crore loss in 2014. But, today it has earned an operating profit of Rs 672 crore in just one and half years time.”
He has expressed the confidence that the public sector telecom company would earn an operating profit of Rs 2,000 crore in this financial year.