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Central
ministers like P.Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal and Manish Tiwari have once
again criticised the CAG for his report of loss of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore
for the government in the 2G scam. Now that the government has got only
Rs. 9,407 crore, far less than the estimated Rs. 40,000 crore in the
present auction, the opportunity is used by the Ministers to criticise
CAG instead of a soul-searching why the auction amount is reduced.
The
fact is that the entire spectrum available has not been put for
auction. Secondly, there were no bidders for auction in some circles.
Third and most important is that, it is clear that the private telecom
companies have bid only for a few circles with an understanding for
cartelisation. They fully believe that sharing will be allowed and they
can give service without bidding for all circles. They had already
provided service in the same way in circles, where they did not have 3G
licence. The fourth is the present the economic recession.
In
each and every point mentioned above, the government and its wrong
policies are fully responsible. C AG has done his job correctly and he
cannot be blamed for the wrong policies of the government. Ministers
should apologise for such bad remarks.
-van namboddiri. President, BSNLEU, New Delhi in his web page vannamboodiri.com