Coms. V.A.N.Namboodiri, President, BSNLEU and K.G.Jayaraj, General Secretary, AIBDPA met Smt. Annie Moraes, Member (Finance), DOT and discussed about implementation of the 78.2% IDR fixation for pensioners. The union representatives requested that the orders be issued without further delay. Member(F) stated that the matter is being forwarded to the Department of Pension and Pension Grievances and after getting it back will sent to Department of Expenditure. After these clearances the order will be issued. Maximum effort is being taken for issue of order early she stated.
The union representatives also wanted that the anomaly in pension for those retired in the first ten months of formation of BSNL be settled early as agreed in the SCOVA meeting. She assured early settlement.

The union leaders also met DDG (Estt.) Shri Khanna and discussed the pending issues connected with the Pensioners.