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AIBDPA writes to Finance Minister on 78.2% IDA Merger

30 Monday Jun 2014

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AIBDPA, Finance Minister

AIBDPA CHQ has written today, 30th June,to Shri Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister, requesting to intervene and issue necessary orders on the 78.2% IDA merger for the BSNL absorbed DOT Pensioners retired before June 2013. Those who retired from June 2013 has already got the benefit.
AIBDPA mentioned the undue delay in issue of order by the DOT, causing much hardship to the retired employees.

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BSNLCCWF writes to Labour Minister on Casual / Contract Workers issues.

30 Monday Jun 2014

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BSNLCCWF, Labour Minister

BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation (BSNLCCWF) has written to the new Labour Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar on the issues of the TSM/Casual/Contract Workers in BSNL demanding early settlement of the issues like Regularisation, payment of minimum wage, implementation of EPF, ESI etc.

The copy of the letter is put in the BSNLCCWF website, bsnlccwf.com

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Steep increase in petrol, diesel prices

30 Monday Jun 2014

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Diesel price, Petrol

Once again the price of petrol and diesel has been increased. The petrol price will go up by Rs. 1.69 per litre and diesel by 50 paise.But the actual price will be more since the tax will be in addition. In Delhi the rise for petrol will be Rs. 2.02 bringing the price for litre to Rs. 73.58. This new rates will come in to force from the midnight of 30 June- 1st July.

Whether it is UPA Government or NDA government, there is no escape from the price increase.

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IDA increased from 88.4% to 91.3% ( 2.9% increase)

30 Monday Jun 2014

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BSNL, IDA

The IDA for BSNL Employees will be raised from 88.4% to 91.3%, by an increase of 2.9%, with effect from 1st July 2014.
The orders are expected to be issued soon.

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National Parties limited to three ?

30 Monday Jun 2014

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National parties.

It is reported that after this General Elections, only three parties are expected to remain as National Parties. They are BJP, Congress and CPI(M). CPI is being taken away from the National Party status. However, no notification has been issued in this matter.

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Crorepati UP MLAs want Salary Hike !

29 Sunday Jun 2014

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Crorepatis, UP MLAs

The UP MLAs have demanded for Salary/Perks hike. At present it is Rs. 50,000. Most of these MLAs, 271 out of 403, are crorepatis. There is no difference of opinion amongst the various parties in this respect.

The Crorepatis Party wise are: SP (140), BSP (63), BJP (32), Congress (18) and RJD (7).

In addition to the Rs. 50,000, they get a monthly telephone bills of Rs.6,000 and free travel of Rs. 1,25,000. Now they want more.

They compare their situation with foreign countries. ” Our legislators are getting very little salary. In foreign countries, the legislators get good salaries, well maintained offices and efficient staff. Our salary is nothing compared to them”, SP leader Azam Khan is reported to have said. Well said! ( Courtesy: TOI)

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NPA of Banks – One Corporate House owes Rs. 1,22,000 crores !

29 Sunday Jun 2014

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Arun Shourie, Corporate Houses, NPA

It has always been known that almost all the major corporates have not returned thousands of crores of rupees they have taken as loan from the banks. These are treated as Non-Performing Assets (NPA) and written off later. The hard earned money of the people were being looted by these corporate houses.
Now, senior BJP leader and former Communications Minister Arun Shourie has stated that one Corporate House in India owned Rs. 1,22,000 crore and another Rs. 58,000 crore to the banks, which they have taken as loan! This will be true. In the same way, there will be thousands of corporate houses, which have been cheating the banks.
Why the government and the Bank Managements are sitting as silent spectator? They should act immediately and take necessary strong action to get back the amounts to the Banks, which are mainly the PSUs.

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4 Ashoka Road, a Few Precious Memories.

29 Sunday Jun 2014

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4, Ashoka Road, CPI(M)

Today’s Hindu has reported that CPI(M) has vacated 4, Ashoka Road Bungalow, which was allocated to it, since after the 2014 elections, it has lost justification to occupy such a bungalow, due to less number of seats.
I read the news with sadness. Vacating M.P.’s bungalows is usual when the occupant is not re-elected, or the respective party does not get sufficient seats to retain it. Earlier also, CPI(M) had to vacate bungalows, which it occupied near Windsor place, where once the CPI(M) Central Committee office situated and also those occupied for SFI, DYFI etc.
But vacating 4, Ashoka Road is something different. It was allotted to Com. A.K.Gopalan M.P. in 1952 after the first Parliament election. He was the Leader of the Opposition as CPI was the second biggest party in Parliament after Congress. The bungalow was with the CPI(M) till now. It has got a lot of precious memories for the CPI(M) and for many ordinary comrades like me.
4, Ashoka Road was the CC Office of the Party when the office shifted from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1978. During the long tenure of Com. AKG as an M.P., he stayed in 4, Ashoka Road. Many important meetings and decisions were taken there. Even after the CC was shifted to the newly built AKG Bhawan in Gole Market area, 4, Ashoka Road was retained by the Party. The offices of the Kisan Sabha, Agricultural Workers Union and SFI were functioning there till now.
I have my own memories of the place. When Com.AKG was occupying the bungalow, on several occasions when I came to Delhi for union/conference/convention purposes, I used to go there just to met him and pay respects. He will ask about news of his friends in Calicut, about union matters etc. All in his presence felt that he is sincerely concerned about you.
When once I contacted him before starting from Calicut to Delhi, he told me to bring some coconuts. I put about some 20 – 25 coconuts in a sack and took it with me in the train. It was summer and by the time I reached Delhi and took it to 4, Ashoka Road, the coconuts were broken. He smilingly chided me, ” Don’t you even know that the coconut has to be brought at least with out removing the tuft?”. Of course, I knew by then from experience.

Even after Com. AKG was not there, I used to go there. It was for participating in a Central Govt. Employees Convention that I reached there on the afternoon of 25th June 1975. On alighting at New Delhi Railway Station we found that there were a large number of police personnel and there was complete silence and hushed voices only. Some comrades from Delhi came to us and told that National Emergency has been declared by the Government and it is not safe to stay where our accommodation was arranged. We were taken to the residence of comrade Jyothirmoy Basu, CPI(M) leader and Member of Parliament at that time. He had already gone underground to escape from arrest. After reaching there, our comrades told about the explosive situation under the draconian emergency. We were told not to go outside,for the fear of being arrested. However, I went to No.4, Ashoka Road. I met Comrade Narikutty Mohanan there who was the Delhi correspondent of Deshabhimani. Incidentally at that time a call came from Ernakulam Exchange.There were no mobile phones at that time.Even STD was not available.Every trunk call has to be connected by Exchange only. Since all press news were completely barred and communications through telephones and fax were all censured there was no opportunity for Mohanan to give a report to the Deshabhimani News paper in Kerala. When Com.K.Prabhakaran, P and T leader contacted from Ernakulam, I asked him to connect Deshabhimani and Mohanan gave detailed report about the declaration of emergency, the list of the arrested leaders and other information. And in the next day Deshabhimani, all the news came with photos of the arrested leaders and a strong editorial. I was told later that Narikkutty Mohanan was taken in to custody and questioned, but the police could not find any evidence of how the news reached Ernakulam Deshabhimani, because there were no records of fax, trunk call etc.
Vacating 4, Ashoka Road is painful, but inevitable in the new circumstances. But I am full of hope that tomorrow or day after tomorrow, the party will gain more strength and will have more Members of Parliament, so that this historic bungalow will once again be occupied by the Party or mass organisations connected with the party.

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Defeat the move to change the labour laws to suit the employers

29 Sunday Jun 2014

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Amendments to labour laws, Protest, Rajasthan Government

The Rajasthan BJP Government headed by Vasundhara Raje has started amending labour laws to suit the requirements of the employers and the corporates, which heavily curtails the rights of the workers and make them insecure and victims of the employers.
Some of the amendments already made are:
1. Amendment to the Industrial disputes Act to the effect that government’s permission will not be required for retrenchment up to 300 workers. At present, permission is required for retrenchment of 100 or more.
2. At present a union which have got 15% strength of workers will be treated as representative union. But after the amendment it will require 30%.
3. At present Contract Labour Act is applicable to companies with 20 workers. As per the amendment adopted, it will require 50 workers.
4. The factories Act are applicable to the units over 10 workers with power and 20 workers without power. Now the amendment has modified it to 20 and 40, double of the earlier limit.

These are all sharp attacks on the working class and their trade unions. The labour laws are being changed to maximise the profit of the employers and bring in a ‘hire and fire’ policy. Unless this is opposed and defeated the working class will be in dire straits. Labour laws made after sustained struggles by the working class can not be allowed to be changed at the whims and fancies of the government to suit the profit hungry employers.

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‘Panchasheela’ Day.

28 Saturday Jun 2014

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India China relations, panchasheel

60 years have passed after the ‘Panchasheela’ Agreement was made between India and china. The Prime Ministers of both India and China, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Chou-en-Lai respectively signed the agreement which was hailed as a big achievement in the relations between the two countries.
It was on 29th June 1954 that the agreement was signed at Peking. There have been many differences during the last 60 years. India has grown and China has grown.
It is time that better relations are brought between the great two Asian countries, which will benefit both.

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