The National Council Meeting, wherein the Recognised Unions and the BSNL Management will discuss issues of the employees and Management, will now be held on 23rd April 2014, instead of on 22nd April. The change has been made to suit the convenience of  the Chairman of the Council, Director (HR) BSNL.

This is the second meeting after the VI Membership Verification and the constitution of the new Council. Workers are happy that the management is holding the meeting in time, as requested by them.  But the Standing Committee which is to be held after the last meeting to review implementation of the decisions in the National Council has not been held so far. In fact, the Standing Committee is yet to be constituted.

It is expected that the present council may be more effective since there are two recognised unions. But it is yet to be proved, since only one meeting has been held and the results are yet to come.

The demand of the unions that the Chairman of the Council should be the CMD and that all full time Directors should be members of the Official Side  is yet to be accepted by the management. It is to be pointed out that  in the National Council of the CG Employees, Cabinet Secretary is the Chairman and the Secretaries of various Departments are members. It was same with the National Council in Department of Telecom, where the Chairman was Secretary, DOT and all Members of the Telecom Commission were Members of the Council. This helped in taking many decisions in the Council itself. In the present National Council of BSNL, decisions are taken very less and even the decisions taken are sometimes declined by the Managing Committee / BSNL Board. Thus the sanctity of the decisions are  lost.

The Unions as well as the Management should work together to make the functioning of the NC effective so that quick decisions are taken and implemented which will benefit both the company and the employees.