ANALYSIS OF OPERATING PERFORMANCE OF BSNL

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited took over the business of providing of telecom services and network management from the erstwhile Central Government Departments of Telecom Services (DTS) and Telecom Operations (DTO), with effect from 1st October‘2000. It is one of the largest and leading public sector units providing comprehensive range of telecom services in the entire India except New Delhi and Mumbai. BSNL is the only service provider, making focused efforts and planned initiatives to bridge the rural-urban digital divide in ICT sector. The present study is focused mainly to assess the operating performance of BSNL in terms of total income, operational income, total expenses, employee benefit expenses, administrative, operating and other expenses, profit before tax, tax expenses and profit after tax. The operational revenue from sale of services of BSNL in initial years 2007-08 and 2008-09 is highest and from the 2008-09 onwards it has been declining year after year up to 2012-13 and started increasing slowly from 2013-14 onwards. The revenue from basic segment has been declining year after year, whereas the revenue from cellular segment and broadband segment increasing. The operating expenses of the BSNL has been increasing year after year from 2007-08 and the major operating expenses are employee benefit expenses and administrative, operating and other expenses. The EBIDT is highest in the initial years of study 2007- 08, 2008-09 and then after it has been declining year after and become negative in the year 2013-14. From the year 2014-15 the EBIDT become positive and increasing.