The Circle Conferences of Assam, North East I and North East II circles are being held together at Silchar (Assam) from 6th to 8th January 2012. This Joint Conference is a long tradition of the North East Circles. Not only telecom unions but also Postal unions together, the Joint Conferences were being held till a few years back. Now, the Postal Unions are holding separately. Earlier there was only one circle called North East Circle including the present Assam, NE I & NE II circles. Later it was bifurcated  to Assam and North East. Again  North East was divided in to NE I & NE II. These three circles represent the seven states of North East Region viz. Assam (Assam Circle) Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram (NE I) and Nagaland, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh (NE II), which are called the seven sisters of North East.  The Union has demanded the management to bifurcate NE I and NE II again so that each state will have its own circle just as in other states. But the management did not agree. There will be much more development if these states are having their own telecom circles.One of the reasons for the backwardness of telecom services in NE I and NE II is this. To go from one state to another , most of these states have to go through Assam and it es a lot of time.

These three circles are the strong holds of BSNLEU. In the first verification BSNLEU got  huge majority in all these circles, which is the position even now. While NFTE BSNL got 124 votes out of 5992 votes in Assam, In North EasT I, it got 11 out of 2127 and  in NE II it got 4 out of 1696.

All these circles are very systematic and have a strong tradition of democratic functioning. My Hearty Greetings to their Joint Coircle Conference!