BSNL earned operating profit of Rs 672 crore: 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,” Prasad said while addressing a 'Vikas Parv' function to mark the completion of two years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in Jamshedpur on Saturday.

The minister expressed confidence that the public sector telecom company would earn an operating profit of Rs 2,000 crore in this fiscal year. “The objective of the Modi government is to see governance in the hands of the people, which is possible through Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhar and mobile phone. The identity of the Modi government is, in a country with 125 crore population, 102 crore have access to mobiles, 101 crore have Aadhar and 40 crore have access to internet,” he said.