Monthly Archives: November 2014

Rs. 142 crore for Advertisement for Birthday/ Death Anniversary by Central Govt.

28 Friday Nov 2014

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How much Central Government is spending for advertisement in papers on birth and death anniversaries of leaders? It is a whooping Rs.142 ctores in the 5 years during 2008-2013. Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth has given the information. For Gandhiji, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi alone, Rs. 53 crore has been spent.
Now BJP government is examining to reduce the advertisement for birth/ death anniversaries of Father of the Nation.
Good! Unnecessary expenditure is certainly to be avoided. But whether the present decision is politically motivated since almost all the leaders whose anniversaries are being advertised are Congress leaders?

Discussion with Casual Contract workers in Jharkhand

28 Friday Nov 2014

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After reaching Dhanbad,along with Coms.Naresh Lal, Circle Secretary, B.Narayan, Vice President BSNLEU and Sudama Pal, Circle Secretary BSNLCCWF I met the large number of casual contract workers who have come from the SSAs in Jharkhand and discussed with them about the problems they are facing. While improvements have taken place, many issues are still to be settled. Minimum wage, EPF / ESI are yet to be implemented in some SSAs.
But the major issue is retrenchment. Where struggles have taken place and demands achieved, workers have been retrenched and victimised. Jamshedpur and Hazaribad are examples. All the casual/ contract workers have been retrenched at Hazaribad. Many have been retrenched and transferred in Jamshedpur. BSNLEU Dist. Secretary also has been victimised for supporting the BSNLCCWF.
We heard the reports and assured that all these cases will be taken by both BSNLEU and BSNLCCWF. The workers are ready to continue their struggle and strengthen the organisation.
A meeting is also fixed in the evening today.

Towards Dhanbad

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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I am on the way to Dhanbad. A State level Convention of  BSNL Casual and Contract workers is being held there tomorrow, 28 November 2014. A good number of comrades will be participating. The workers are determined to put an end to the brutal exploitation continuing for decades. It is a shame on each and every one in BSNL that in this PSU such ecploitation is taking place. Those who protest and demand implementation of goverment orders and CMD BSNL instructions are victimised and put out job.
This injustice has to end.

One Day Strike on 27 November a Big Success

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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The one day strike on 27 November is a great success with maximum participation. BSNL Non- Executive employees and casual / contract workers have jointly shown that the management can not ignore the reasonable demands of workers.

Hearty Congratulations and Warm Greetings to all who made the strike a historical success.

5.5 lakh Schools have no electricity, 2.03 lakh Schools have no Toilets after 67 years of Independence

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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HRD Minister Smt. Smriti Irani has stated in the Parliament on 26th November 2014 that ” 2.03 lakh government Schools lack toilet facilities, 54,533 have do not have drinking water and 5.57 lakh do not have electricity connection”.

The number might be much more, since many state governments may not be giving the correct picture to justify themselves.

It is more than 67 years after India got Independence from the British. But even after 67 years, this is the pitiable condition of the government schools where our future generation have to educate themselves. It is no surprise that many people who want their children to study in government schools are compelled to send them to private schools, paying hefty fees and incurring other extra expenditure. Many governments are purposely neglecting their own schools, delaying funds and not equipping them with even minimum requirements. It is, in fact, helping the private schools in this way. The Congress/UPA and BJP/NDA governments, which ruled the country for all these years, should be made to answer for the neglect of the government schools.

The latest news is the statement the Minister of State, HRD, Shri Upendra Kushwaha that there are vacancies of 7,556 posts of teachers unfilled in the 1,102 Kendriya vidyalayas in the country.

Shame to the Government! What are you doing for the lakhs of children, the future citizens of  the country, who want to study and learn!  Is there no ‘Achha Din’ fir the future generations?

Publish the List of Black Money Accounts, Mr. Jaitley!

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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The Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has stated in the Parliament that it has tracked down 427 foreign accounts in HSBC in  Geneva and that 250 account holders out of them have admitted that they have accounts. Well!

What is the need of keeping these account holders name secret? Is it to give time to them to withdraw the amount and put it in some other foreign banks? Or is it to give them time to shift themselves to other countries so that they can escape?

As Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley should immediately publish the name of the holders of black money accounts and expose them before the public. These are not ordinary or common people, but who have made illegal money. Bring them to  justice!

Government Gifts Rs. 18,000 crore to Shell and Rs. 3,200 crore to Vodafone

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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The soft corner of the NDA government for the corporates ad MNCs are now an open chapter. The government has now decided not to go on appeal against the decision of the Mumbai High Court cancelling the Income Tax demand of the government on Shell for Rs.18,000 crore and on Vodafone for Rs. 3,200 crore towards transfer pricing cases. The justification for not going on appeal is on the plea that it will give a wrong signal to the foreign investors and corporates.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitely’s statement is that  “Unsustainable demands won’t get you taxes”, meaning that the tax demand is not justified. He continued stating that ” They would have only earned us a bad name as an investment destination.” So, to get a good name from the foreign investors, the government is prepared to forego its valuable tax money.

It is not the due tax from Vodafone and Shell that will be lost. It is stated that  there are 20 more such tax cases and if all those cases are let of, the government will be losing lakhs of crores of rupees. These companies include IBM, Nokia, Cairn etc.

It is the same government which gifts lakhs of crores of rupees to the MNCs and corporates that refuses to honour its commitments to the telecom PSU, BSNL, to refund its spectrum charges, licence fee etc.

Hugh Bonanza to the corporates and no support to PSUs! This is the NDA/BJP Government! Of course it is Achha Din for the Big business and Bura Din for the people and their democratic institutions!

One Day Strike by BSNL Employees and BSNL Casual and Contract Workers

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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The two lakh BSNL Non-Executive Employees and one lakh casual and contract workers have started their one day strike today, 27th November 2014, from 00.00 to 24.00 hours. The reports getting from various centres are very positive and a full strike is taking place. The Call is given by the JAC of Non-Executive Employees and the BSNL Casual and Contract Workers Federation.

The strike is taking place due to the utter negative and insensitive attitude of the BSNL Management in not settling the long pending issues of the non-executives, despite continued persuasion. In the case of casual and contract workers, it is mainly the non-implementation of the government and BSNL C.O. orders. The casual and contract workers engaged for more than 20-25 years are still not regularised so far.

The reports so far received indicates a full strike in all the places. The workers are angry and unhappy that the management has denied their justified demands.

Hearty Congratulations and Warm greetings to all the workers and labours, who have made the strike a mighty action.

CPI(M) Protest Dharna at Jantar Mantar on MGNREGA

26 Wednesday Nov 2014

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New Delhi, November 26: It is rare when a Chief Minister stages a sit-in protest in Delhi. But Delhi’s Jantar Mantar witnessed this rare spectacle when the Tripura Chief Minister, Manik Sarkar led thousands of people from various states and sat on a dharna today. The CPI(M) Polit Bureau member was joined by General Secretary Prakash Karat and other members of the Polit Bureau and the Central Committee in initiating an agitation against the Modi government’s moves to curtail and restrict the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to 200 most backward districts in the country. The protest in Delhi was part of the call given by the CPI(M) for a countrywide protest on the issue. (Ganashakti)

 

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