NEW DELHI: A year in office, the Modi government is keen to revive state-owned enterprises BSNL and MTNL, even as they face stiff competition from private players.
BSNL that operates across the country including in remote areas, had posted a profit of Rs 10, 000 crore when the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government left office in 2004, but "when we returned to government in 2014, it was suffering from a loss of Rs 7020 crore," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told TOI.