Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is India’s leading public sector telecommunications company owned by Govt of India. It is a statutorily constituted official telephonic and other communication facilities provider in India. A successor of Department of Telecom, BSNL has the largest landline telephone network and perhaps the single largest mobile subscriber network in the country. BSNL provides the following services on a pan India basis (except in cities of Mumbai and New Delhi where another public sector company MTNL operates).
BSNL Core Services
- Landline Phone Services to urban and rural India
- Public Call Offices (PCO)
- Toll free number services
- GSM Mobile
- CDMA Mobile
- CDMA Internet Data Card
- WiMax
- CDMA Fixed Service
- Broadband Internet
- Dialup Internet
- Mobile broadband
- Fiber broadband
- WiFi
- Enterprice Broadband, IDC Services, Data Services
- Managed Network, mail, data centre services
Average Salaries in BSNL
BSNL has a well structured wage & salary policy based on IDA pattern. The salary structures are aimed to meet the fair living needs of its technical and managerial staff across the country which maintains the largest telecom network in the country. The scales of salary are in conformity with the national wage policy for industrial employees and also the public sector wage standards in India. To be clear, BSNL salaries are among the decent salary packages in the country. Employees are also entitled to various benefits like medical insurance (ESI) and medical reimbursement, leave travel allowance, paid holidays as well as children education concessions. Have a look at the average salaries and the pay scales of employees at BSNL:
| Job Category | Annual Average Salaries |
|---|---|
| Telecommunication Engineer | INR 429,000- INR 469,000 |
| JTO | INR 450,000- INR 600,000 with an annual average salary of INR 504,000 |
| Junior Telecom Officer | INR 240,000- INR 634,000 with an annual average salary of INR 506,361 |
| Accounts Officer | INR 420,000- INR 800,000 with an annual average salary of INR 573,333 |
| Clerk | INR 111,204- INR 120,000 |
| Senior Sub Divisional Engineer | INR 500,000- INR 831,000 with an annual average salary of INR 638,500 |
| Sub Divisional Engineer | INR 716,000- INR 826,000 with an annual average salary of INR 771,064 |
| TTA | INR 290,000- INR 350,000 with an annual average salary of INR 310,000 |
| DGM | INR 552,000- INR 1,260,000 with an annual average salary of INR 900,864 |
More About BSNL Salary
Here is a glimpse of the pay scales of BSNL cadres in Group A, B, and C (In the Southern Telecom Projects Circle)
| Job Category | Pay Scales |
|---|---|
| Senior admin Grade (Group A- Finance and Accounts) | 18400-500-22400 (CDA) |
| Junior Admin Grade (Group A- Finance and Accounts- SG) | 12000-375-16500 (CDA) |
| Senior admin Grade (Group A- level II) | 18400-500-22400 (CDA) |
| Senior admin Grade (Group A- level I) | 22400-525-24500 (CDA) |
| Senior Accounts Officer (Group B) | 13000-350-18250 (IDA) |
| Assistants ( Group B) | 9850-250-14600 (IDA) |
| PS | 11875-300-17275 (IDA) |
| Senior Hindi Translator | 7800-225-11175(IDA) |
| Phone Mechanic | 4720-150-6970 (IDA) |
| Driver | 4720-150-6970 (IDA) 5700-160-8100 (IDA) 4550-140-6650 (IDA) |
| Junior Hindi Translator | 7100-200-10100 (IDA) |
| Technician | 4720-150-6970 (IDA) |
| Stenographer | 5700-160-8100 (IDA) |
*IDA stands for Industrial Dearness Allowance.
Benefits
The comprehensive package of perks and benefits at BSNL stands like this:
House Rent Allowance/House Accommodation
| Cities with population | HRA Rates |
|---|---|
| Less than five lakh | 10 percent of basic pay |
| 5 Lakh to 50 lakh | 20 percent of basic pay |
| 50 lakh and above | 10 percent of basic pay |
Pension Contribution, Medical Allowance reimbursement, CCA or City Compensatory Allowance, Dearness Allowances are other perks and benefits provided by BSNL to its employees
*Salaries are subject to change with time.
