Mandate states, departments, PSUs to use BSNL 4G services: Employees to PM Modi

NEW DELHI: Employee unions of the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to direct all government offices, departments, and PSUs to mandatorily use the telco’s fourth-generation (4G) services, to support the government’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ (self-reliant India) ambition.

“It is suggested that the adoption of BSNL’s swadeshi 4G services be made mandatory for all mobile connections wherever expenditure is reimbursed from public funds including all central and state government and public sector entities,” Ravi Shil Verma, chairman, Bharatiya Doorsanchar Manch, and RC Pandey, convener, Bharatiya Doorsanchar Manch, wrote in a letter dated April 6, 2026, to PM Modi.