The Hindu Business Line : Telecom service officers up in arms against DoT move

INDIAN Telecom Service (ITS) officers and the Department of Telecom are heading towards a collision course over the issue of absorbing 2,000 officers in state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.

While the ITS officers have opposed DoT's move to permanently move the officers to organisations such as BSNL, MTNL, TCIL and TRAI on the grounds that the compensation was not adequate, DoT has said that the officers who do not move to these organisations would be put in surplus cell. Until now,

ITS officers have been working in the public sector companies on deputation.

"ITS officers are systematically being marginalised by Indian Administrative Service officers in DoT to gain control of this important and high growth sector.

This is a typical case of generalists trying to unduly dominate the professionals and take away their career growth opportunities. This action is neither in the national interest nor good for the morale of qualified technocrats," said a press release from ITS Association.

Mr S.C. Sharma, General Secretary, ITSA, said DoT wants to force ITS officers to get absorbed in BSNL and MTNL on terms and conditions which are non-transparent and putting the career of the officers at stake in addition to causing huge loss in emoluments.

Mr Sharma said the BSNL board has written to DoT that the company may lose out significantly without the Group `A' officers.

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