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Over 60k apply for VRS in BSNL/MTNL in 4 days: Telecom Secy
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SME Times News Bureau | 09 Nov, 2019
Over 60,000 employees have applied for Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)
in BSNL and MTNL, telecom secretary Anshu Prakash said on Friday.
Out
of this, a little over 57,000 employees are from BSNL and around 3,000
from MTNL, Prakash said on the sidelines of a Department of Telecom
(DoT) event.
He said the VRS is very attractively designed and
has received "unprecedented" response from the employees. The
government's overall target stood at 94,000 from both the PSUs, he said.
Last
month the government had approved a plum Rs 69,000 crore revival
package for BSNL and MTNL that includes merging the two loss-making
firms, monetising their assets and offering VRS to employees so that the
combined entity turns profitable in two years.
In all, nearly
one lakh BSNL employees are eligible to apply for VRS out of its total
staff strength of 1.76 lakh. The scheme will be open till December 3.
BSNL
has 1.76 lakh employees, of which some 1.06 lakh are over 50 years of
age. The telco is keen that 80 per cent of the employees should opt for
VRS.
Employees above the age of 53.5 years will get 125 per cent
of their salary, which they could have earned in the balance period of
their service. Employees in the age bracket of 50 to 53.5 years opting
for VRS will get benefit in the range of 80 to 100 per cent of the
remuneration to be paid in the balance period of their service.
For
employees over 55 years of age opting for VRS, the pension will be
commuted only when they attain 60 years of age (the current retirement
age).
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