Shillong, April 29: At a time when commerce and industry is facing a very bad patch due to various problems the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited from the North East Circle-I has been able to make profit with an increase of Rs 4.9 crore over the previous year’s earnings of Rs 208.85 cores.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday Chief general manager of the BSNL’s North East Circle–I D P Singh said that the company earned Rs 89.5 crore from Tripura, Rs 38.6 crore from Mizoram and 65.6 crore from Meghalaya.
However, he said that the customers in the states of Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura that comprise the circle still owe the state-owned company a whopping Rs 84 crore as outstanding dues.
Announcing the overall revenue for NE-1 singh said for the last\ financial year 2011-12 stood at 204.85 crores.
“This year 2012-13 the revenue has increased to 213.96 crores”, Singh said adding that more importantly the expenditure has come down for 2012-13 by 2.9 crores.
While informing about the achievements of the company, Singh said it had provided 1.7 lakh GSM mobile connections and commissioned 57 towers, thus enhancing the capacity by about one lakh lines, especially in the rural areas during the last one year.(SP News)
