The National Council of the BSNL was held today, 27th February 2012 under the chairmanship of A.N.Rai Director (HR). The staff side was very critical about the delay in holding the meeting. It was assured by the management that the meetings will be held in time in future and the next meeting is decided to be held on 24th May or in that week.

One of the important issues discussed was about the regularisation of the 3361 and odd casual labours who are engaged and working in DOT and BSNL for the last 10 to 15 years or more. After much discussion, the official side has agreed to prepare a scheme for the regularisation. It is a great advance in this matter. The non-implementation of the minimum wage and social security measures, EPF and ESI were focussed in my initial remarks as the leader of staff side and demanded full implementation.

There were detailed discussion on the improvement on NEPP, Telecom Factory issues, SC/ST reservation, relaxation in examinations ( modification of RRs), Pension Scheme for the BSNL recruited employees etc.  A note on the discussions will be put in the union website.