Many Central Ministers have considerably increased their assets in the one year from 2009 to 2010. This is according to the response received for an RTI enquiry. The Times of India has published the details according to which the assets of Praful Patel increased from 30.70 to 38.43 crores and that of Jyotiraditya Scindia from 22.73 to 24.01 crores. A. Raja increased  his assets from 1.05 to 1.85 crore. This is in a country where 75% of the people are getting less than Rs.20.00 a day for their subsistence.

National Federation of P&T Employees (NFPTE), the mighty organisation of the P&T Workers was formed on 24th November 1954 amalgamating all the existing unions in the sector. The NFPTE with its 9 affiliated unions became the nerve centre of the Central Government Employees Movement. It was in  the forefront of the 1960,1968 and other strikes and struggles of the CG Employees.

NFPTE was bifurcated in to NFTE and NFPE after the P&T Department was bifurcated in 1985. After formation of BSNL in 2000 BSNLEU was formed by the progressive section of workers. It is now the biggest union in BSNL. It is the only union which inherited the tradition of original NFPTE and followed the footsteps of the pioneers of the movement, Tarapada Mukherjee, Henry Barton, Dada Ghosh, K.G.Bose, N.J.Iyer, Adinarayana and others.

Let us March ahead for a better tomorrow! Workers of the World Unite!

The SBI staff strike called for 25th & 26th November for implementation of wage agreement has been called off after  the government agreed to implement the wage agreement already reached. This will benefit 1.70 lakh employees with effect from 01-11-2007.  Congratulations to the SBI workers for their success.

Meeting of the Joint Action Committee of BSNL Unions & Associations held on 22nd November has called upon the entire three lakh executive and Non-Executive employees to organise a mighty three days strike from 1st to 3rd December to defend BSNL and for ensuring their most important demands. Mighty propaganda should be unleashed amongst the workers and the common people.  Massive demonstrations in front of  thousands of BSNL offices/exchanges will be organised  on 29th November in preparation for the 3 days strike.

Despite justified demands from the opposition parties and complete disruption of Parliament for one week, why is it that the Government is still adamant in denying a JPC probe in the 2G Scam, the biggest scam the country has seen since Independance? Why is that criminal proceedings are not taken against the guilty? What and who are the skeltons in the cup board? The country demands the answers and remedial actions.

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) will be introduced in Haryana Circle from 25th November 2010 as per DOT. MNP will enable a subscriber of a telecom company to switch over to another company retaining his original number. Eight telcos are providing services in Haryana viz.BSNL, Airtel, Idea, Aircel, Loop, Vodafone, Etisalat DB and Videocon.

The agitational programmes decided by BSNLEU & BSNLC&CWF,  West Bengal with effect from 18th November 2010 have been deferred after the discussions with CMD BSNL and Sr.GM(Estt) on 16th November 2010.  Coms. VAN Namboodiri, President BSNLEU & BSNLC&CWF, P.Abhimanyu, GS, BSNLEU, Tapas Ghosh, SG BSNLC&CWF, P.Asokababu, Dy.GS, BSNLEU and Animesh Mitra, CS, WB, BSNLEU participated in the discussions.