• Job Responsibilities of Legal Unit
  • Providing advice on good governance practices and compliance of corporate governance norms as prescribed under various corporate, securities and other business laws and regulations and guidelines made there under

  • Ensuring that Board procedures are followed and regularly reviewed
     Providing guidance to Chairman and Directors on their responsibilities under various laws

  • Scheduling, conducting and recording proceedings of Board meetings as well as Annual General meetings

  • Maintenance of secretarial records, statutory books and registers

  • Handling legal aspects with regard to collaborations, amalgamation, subsidiaries or joint ventures of company within and outside India

  • Management of public issue if company decides to go public

  • Signing the annual returns of the company, if required

  • Providing in-house legal advice / opinion to business units & shared support functions
    o Compliance with corporate laws and industry guidelines for industrial, labour, mercantile and other matters
    0 Including liaisoning with external advocates, if required

  • Assistance in matters of internal arbitration and conflict resolution

  • Liaisoning and communication with external empanel Advocates of the Company in respect to cases related to BSNL
    • Management, monitoring and resolution of BSNL’s court cases
    . Liaisoning with external advocates for advice
    .Cases filed against BSNL by external parties

  • Cases filed by BSNL against external parties

  • Cases filed against BSNL employees by external parties (related to business matters)
    o Issuance of legal notices, summons, circulars, petitions and arbitration notices
    o Call for legal monitoring reports in already prescribed formats from all units at the corporate office and the field units
    o Creating and updating of central database of court case proceedings

  • On-going company cases
    Past company cases

  • Other relevant cases to cite precedence o Compilation, monitoring and submission of various returns related to pending cases to DoT cases regularly
    • Maintenance of statutory and non-statutory books, including
    o Compliance of directives from DoT, TDSAT, etc
    o Industrial and Labour laws
    o Union laws
    o Tax laws
    • Preparation of legal briefs and representation of company on internal activities
    o Drafting contracts, agreements, MoUs, Power of Attorney, etc
    o Inquiries from Solicitor General/ Additional Solicitor General of India