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BSNL's 93 mn GSM-lines tender in limbo; cancels Huawei order
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NEW DELHI: In a surprise move, state-run telecom firm BSNL has cancelled the equipment purchase order given to Chinese company Huawei saying the conditions imposed by the vendor are not acceptable, leaving the fate of Rs 32,000-crore capacity addition programme in limbo.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), after prolonged discussions, had placed order for 20 million GSM lines for the South Zone with Huawei last month.

According to sources close to the development, BSNL's extreme step comes in the wake of the Chinese vendor's conditional supply of equipments. Huawei spokesperson declined to comment.

"There was no scope for accepting conditions as the order was placed after detailed negotiations and as a government owned firm (BSNL) we do not accept conditions," a senior BSNL official said.

When asked about the conditions, the official declined to comment. While for the North and Eastern region, the PSU is still negotiating with another vendor-- Ericsson and has not yet finalised the order.

Sources also indicated that BSNL was weighing various options, including calling fresh bids for adding 93 million GSM lines to its networks.

Officials said, in the process, BSNL would lose further market share to private operators as it may exhaust the remaining capacity in various circles soon.

BSNL today said it had placed purchase order for mobile equipment for 20 million GSM lines for the south zone with Chinese firm Huawei and will not call for any fresh bids.

Last month BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal had said the PSU is in advanced stages of negotiations with Ericsson for the north (25 million) and east zone (18 million) and hopes to finalise it soon.

BSNL had chosen the bids submitted by Ericsson and Huawei, while rejecting the offers made by three other vendors -- Nokia Siemens, ZTE and Alcatel Lucent.

Nokia-Siemens had challenged the rejection by BSNL and a final verdict on it is still pending in courts.

The PSU has also come under attack for non-transparency with only one vendor for each region. But BSNL said it was a competitive bidding. "Bids are supposed to be competitive. They are global bids," Goyal had said.

BSNL had floated a tender last year for procuring equipment to expand its GSM network by 93 million lines in four zones -- North, West, South and East.

After evaluating technical bids, Ericsson was considered for the North and Eastern regions, while Huawei was offered the Southern region.

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NHRC Acting Chairperson Justice Shri G.P. Mathur's message on the eve of Human Rights Day

Fellow countrymen, greetings to you all on the eve of Human Rights Day which is tomorrow - the 10th December. The day reminds us of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The predominant theme and spirit of this Universal Declaration is that Human rights of all should be respected, protected and promoted. All human beings are born free and are entitled to basic human rights.
The National Human Right Commission since its inception in the year 1993, under the Protection of Human Rights Act, has evolved as a bridge between the government authorities and the people of this country in protecting and promoting human rights of all. There are enabling laws and the necessity is to know them. I call upon you to exercise your human rights guaranteed as fundamental rights under the Constitution of India, to ensure that you are not deprived of them.
I would like to say on this solemn occasion that the National Human Right Commission continues to imbibe and promote the values of humanity. During more than 16 years of its existence, the Commission has taken a number of initiatives in recommending guidelines to the government for framing policies on issues which directly impact the human rights. These include right to education, health, food and clean environment besides civil and political rights. The growing number of complaints of human rights violation to the Commission each year shows the trust the fellow countrymen have reposed in it. However, human rights violations should also be a matter of concern for the society and the system.
Ours is a multicultural and multilingual society thriving on its unity in diversity and pluralism. We have given the world the concept of 'VASUDHAIV KUTUMBAKAM' i.e. the world is one family and also the concept of 'SARVE BHAVNTU SUKHINAH' i.e., let there be happiness for all. This is also the motto of the National Human Right Commission. On behalf of the Commission, may I appeal to one and all to work for an atmosphere where there is no discrimination in the society, and the dignity of human being is not undermined.
Thank you.





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NHRC Acting Chairperson Justice Shri G.P. Mathur's message on the eve of Human Rights Day

Fellow countrymen, greetings to you all on the eve of Human Rights Day which is tomorrow - the 10th December. The day reminds us of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The predominant theme and spirit of this Universal Declaration is that Human rights of all should be respected, protected and promoted. All human beings are born free and are entitled to basic human rights.
The National Human Right Commission since its inception in the year 1993, under the Protection of Human Rights Act, has evolved as a bridge between the government authorities and the people of this country in protecting and promoting human rights of all. There are enabling laws and the necessity is to know them. I call upon you to exercise your human rights guaranteed as fundamental rights under the Constitution of India, to ensure that you are not deprived of them.
I would like to say on this solemn occasion that the National Human Right Commission continues to imbibe and promote the values of humanity. During more than 16 years of its existence, the Commission has taken a number of initiatives in recommending guidelines to the government for framing policies on issues which directly impact the human rights. These include right to education, health, food and clean environment besides civil and political rights. The growing number of complaints of human rights violation to the Commission each year shows the trust the fellow countrymen have reposed in it. However, human rights violations should also be a matter of concern for the society and the system.
Ours is a multicultural and multilingual society thriving on its unity in diversity and pluralism. We have given the world the concept of 'VASUDHAIV KUTUMBAKAM' i.e. the world is one family and also the concept of 'SARVE BHAVNTU SUKHINAH' i.e., let there be happiness for all. This is also the motto of the National Human Right Commission. On behalf of the Commission, may I appeal to one and all to work for an atmosphere where there is no discrimination in the society, and the dignity of human being is not undermined.
Thank you.





Note: For further details kindly contact National Human Rights Commission, Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi, PIN 110001 Tel.No. 23382742 Fax No. 23384863 E-Mail: covdnhrc@nic.in, ionhrc@nic.in

Disclaimer: Neither NHRC nor NIC is responsible for any inadvertent error that may have crept in the Information being published on NET.
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MNP not before April, says BSNL, MTNL
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NEW DELHI: Both BSNL and MTNL are set to miss the mobile number portability (MNP) deadline of December 31.

The state-run telcos have informed the government that they will not be able to implement the system before April for a variety of reasons such as lack of time to tweak the technology, tariff plans and billing among others.

The government had set a December 31 deadline for implementing the MNP regime for the metros and June 2010 for the non-metros.

Last week Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said that the MNP--the facility that allows customers to change their operator but retain their mobile number--would be implemented 'early next year'. It is expected that MNP will force operators to improve the quality of their services.

Sectoral regulator TRAI chairman JS Sarma said the operators should try to implement the facility within the deadline lest they be labelled as anti-consumer.

At a recent meeting chaired by the DoT secretary on MNP, both MTNL and BSNL had said they would not be ready to offer the facility before April.

Following this, the DoT set up a coordination committee with BSNL and MTNL and two MNP service providers-- MITS and Synverse so that the proposal will not be derailed.

While MTNL said its fixed line network being a legacy network requires a lot of time, effort and cost to upgrade it to make it MNP-compliant, BSNL cited a slew of impediments, ranging from lack of a draft interconnect agreement to the issues regarding tariffs for off-net and on-net, as its network will not support differential charging.

Technically, MNP is applicable to all types of telecom offering, be it mobile, WLL (wireless in local-loop) or fixed line services.

The largest telco also said billing is a problem for them in the post-MNP scenario as well.

BSNL said its basic service network, spread across the country, consists of different technologies and it has taken considerable time to find implementable solutions for all types of switches.

The PSU said it is still awaiting compensation of the expenditure worth Rs 1,000 crore for implementation.

Being a PSU, it pointed out it has to procure equipment through open tenders which takes time and due to lack of clarity on certain issues the comprehensive bid document could not even be prepared.

BSNL further said that the DoT is yet to issue some clarifications regarding the procedures to port those numbers which are under observation of law enforcement agencies.

MTNL operates only in Delhi and Mumbai--the largest two mobile markets-- and BSNL operates in the rest of the country.


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