The contract workers engaged in UP(E) Circle of BSNL are facing inhuman exploitation from the contractors.BSNL Management is either closing its eyes to these gross violation of rules and regulations or are a willing party to the same.
In the meeting of a some leaders and workers of BSNLCCWF held at Lucknow, the leaders placed the sharp facts before Com.V.A.N.Namboodiri, President of BSNLCCWF, who had come to Lucknow to attend the Circle Convention on “Revival of BSNL” on 15th October. Though the Minimum Wage as per government of India rules and BSNL instructions come to around Rs.6,000 in C class Cities for the unskilled, the wages paid are around Rs. 1,500 – 2,000, except in very rare cases. No EPF or ESI are deducted and remitted to the EPF/ESI authorities with the equal contribution of the Contractor/Principal Employer ie. BSNL. Workers are retrenched when they demand for their rights. The Circle Secretary, BSNLCCWF, Com. Tiwari himself has been retrenched months back. BSNLEU leaders have taken up the matter with the Management but no action from the latter.

It is shocking that the BSNL Management is sleeping over this injustice. Some of the General Managers, the top management of the SSAs, are stated to threaten the poor labours that if they raise the issue of minimum wage, EPF etc. they will be retrenched and even get arrested on false cases. This is a shame to the entire BSNL Management. If the contractor is not paying the minimum wage as per the orders of the Government of India and the orders of the CMD BSNL, they should be black-listed and kept out of the tenders. In some SSAs, it is told, that the BSNL officers themselves are paying the wages, but the amount is far below the minimum wage and EPF/ESI are not implemented.
The Circle BSNL Management should ponder how much they are violating the orders of the government and CMD BSNL and is becoming a willing party to the exploitation of the contract workers by the contractors.
This is shame to the entire BSNL itself. Each and every officer/employees of the BSNL as well as the management should come forward to put an end to this inhuman exploitation.