ITS officers without work will be moved to a surplus staff

The government is likely to declare some 400 officers in the Telecom Department as surplus following their refusal to consider re-employment in BSNL. These Indian Telecom Service executives, who had transferred to the DoT from cash-strapped BSNL in November, are likely to be moved to a surplus staffers cell in the HRD ministry, according to a senior official of BSNL. "ITS officers without work will be moved to a surplus staff establishment, a unit of the department of personnel & training in the HRD ministry," the official said.